Protection, City Of, KS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Protection, City Of serves about 503 people through 356 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Comanche County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2003302; phone on file: 620-622-4696. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Protection, City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Protection, City Of is 37.9 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 37.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 8.3 ppb |
How Protection, City Of compares
Of the 832 Kansas systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.4 ppb; 2 are over 15 ppb right now and 35 have gone over at some point. Protection, City Of's 1.1 ppb sits at the 42nd percentile in Kansas and the 57th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Comanche County
3 other systems share Comanche County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Protection, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Coldwater, City Of | 672 | 0 (not detected) |
| Comanche Co Rwd 2 | 173 | 3.8 ppb |
| Comanche Co Rwd 1 | 77 | 2.2 ppb |
Next steps for Protection, KS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Protection, KS may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Protection, City Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.