Rice Co Rwd 1, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.2 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Rice Co Rwd 1 at a glance
Rice Co Rwd 1 serves about 900 people through 465 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 Rice County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2015908; phone on file: 620-897-5215. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (3.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rice Co Rwd 1 is 4.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.9 ppb |
How Rice Co Rwd 1 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. Rice Co Rwd 1's 4.2 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Kansas and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Rice County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rice Co Rwd 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lyons, City Of | 3,556 | 1.27 ppb |
| Sterling, City Of | 2,318 | 0 (not detected) |
| Little River, City Of | 474 | 2.2 ppb |
| Chase, City Of | 390 | 0 (not detected) |
| Geneseo, City Of | 231 | 0.51 ppb |
| Bushton, City Of | 199 | 2.9 ppb |
| Raymond, City Of | 85 | 1.3 ppb |
Next steps for Little River, KS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Little River, 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 Rice Co Rwd 1 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.