Rooks Co Rwd 2, KS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
About Rooks Co Rwd 2
Rooks Co Rwd 2 serves about 40 people through 31 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Rooks County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2016306; phone on file: 785-737-3420. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (2.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rooks Co Rwd 2 is 32.2 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 32.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 7.1 ppb |
How Rooks Co Rwd 2 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. Rooks Co Rwd 2's 1.7 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Kansas and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Rooks County
7 other systems share Rooks County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rooks Co Rwd 2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Plainville, City Of | 1,762 | 4 ppb |
| Stockton, City Of | 1,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rooks Co Rwd 3 | 380 | 2.7 ppb |
| Palco, City Of | 210 | 14 ppb |
| Damar, City Of | 115 | 2.3 ppb |
| Woodston, City Of | 95 | 4.2 ppb |
| Rooks Co Rwd 1 | 55 | 3.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Codell, 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 Rooks Co Rwd 2 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.