Sylvia, City Of, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.1 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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 Sylvia, City Of
Sylvia, City Of serves about 210 people through 135 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 Reno County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2015502; phone on file: 620-486-2472. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 4.9 ppb from 8 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sylvia, City Of is 13 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 8 ppb |
| 2023 | 8 ppb |
| 2022 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Sylvia, City Of 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. Sylvia, City Of's 3.1 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Kansas and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Reno County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sylvia, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hutchinson, City Of | 39,712 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Hutchinson, City Of | 2,498 | 3.1 ppb |
| Buhler, City Of | 1,315 | 2 ppb |
| Haven, City Of | 1,149 | 4.2 ppb |
| Nickerson, City Of | 1,050 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pretty Prairie, City Of | 655 | 2.6 ppb |
| Reno Co Rwd 4 | 635 | 0.9 ppb |
| Reno Co Rwd 3 | 450 | 1.6 ppb |
| Arlington, City Of | 431 | 0 (not detected) |
| Turon, City Of | 304 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sylvia, 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 Sylvia, City Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1575 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.