Sedan, City Of, KS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.4 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.
Who runs the water here
Sedan, City Of serves about 1,005 people through 687 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 surface water, in Chautauqua County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2001903; phone on file: 620-725-3193. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.7 ppb from 5.1 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sedan, City Of is 20 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 8.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 6.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 6.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 20 ppb over 15 |
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. Sedan, City Of's 3.4 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Kansas and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Chautauqua County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Sedan, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cedar Vale, City Of | 475 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chautauqua Co Rwd 4 | 475 | 1.6 ppb |
| Chautauqua Co Rwd 2 | 278 | 4.3 ppb |
| Chautauqua Co Rwd 3 | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chautauqua Co Rwd 1 | 135 | 0.6 ppb |
| Chautauqua, City Of | 110 | 0 (not detected) |
| Peru, City Of | 105 | 1 ppb |
| Elgin, City Of | 56 | 2.2 ppb |
| Public Wholesale Wsd 20 | 1 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sedan, 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 Sedan, 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.