Roseland, City Of, KS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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
Roseland, City Of serves about 73 people through 38 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 Cherokee County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2002105; phone on file: 620-479-6301. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Roseland, City Of is 60 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 60 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Kansas systems
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. Roseland, City Of's 1.2 ppb sits at the 44th percentile in Kansas and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Cherokee County
15 other systems share Cherokee County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Roseland, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Springs, City Of | 3,852 | 3.2 ppb |
| Columbus, City Of | 2,882 | 0 (not detected) |
| Galena, City Of | 2,743 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 3 | 1,900 | 2.4 ppb |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 4 | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 8 | 1,235 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 2 | 943 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 9 | 900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Weir, City Of | 566 | 1.1 ppb |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 1 | 520 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Scammon, 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 Roseland, 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.