Scammon, City Of, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.3 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. 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.
About Scammon, City Of
Scammon, City Of serves about 370 people through 200 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: KS2002101; phone on file: 620-479-2321. 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 3.3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Scammon, City Of is 3.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 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. Scammon, City Of's 3.3 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Kansas and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Cherokee County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Scammon, 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 Scammon, 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.