Sumner Co Rwd 5, KS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Sumner Co Rwd 5
Sumner Co Rwd 5 serves about 1,429 people through 363 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 Sumner County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2019101; phone on file: 620-456-2350. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.5 ppb from 2.5 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sumner Co Rwd 5 is 3.7 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.1 ppb |
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. Sumner Co Rwd 5's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 24th percentile in Kansas and the 29th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Sumner County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sumner Co Rwd 5. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wellington, City Of | 7,664 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mulvane, City Of | 6,587 | 2.9 ppb |
| Belle Plaine, City Of | 1,468 | 2.9 ppb |
| Sumner Co Rwd 4 | 1,157 | 4.2 ppb |
| Conway Springs, City Of | 1,106 | 4.66 ppb |
| Oxford, City Of | 1,048 | 0 (not detected) |
| Caldwell, City Of | 1,019 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sumner Co Rwd 2 | 490 | 1.1 ppb |
| Argonia, City Of | 455 | 1.1 ppb |
| South Haven, City Of | 325 | 2.1 ppb |
Next steps for Conway Springs, KS
Look up your address in Sumner Co Rwd 5's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Sumner Co Rwd 5 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.