Thayer, City Of, KS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Who runs the water here
Thayer, City Of serves about 433 people through 231 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 surface water, in Neosho County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2013312; phone on file: 620-839-5353. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Thayer, City Of's lead record
That is down 4.9 ppb from 4.9 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Thayer, City Of is 4.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0.7 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Thayer, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in Kansas and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Neosho County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Thayer, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Chanute, City Of | 8,642 | 1.2 ppb |
| Neosho Co Rwd 4 | 2,095 | 0 (not detected) |
| Neosho Co Rwd 2 | 1,210 | 2.3 ppb |
| Erie, City Of | 1,037 | 1.87 ppb |
| Neosho Co Rwd 1c | 670 | 2.3 ppb |
| Neosho Co Rwd 7 | 625 | 0 (not detected) |
| St Paul, City Of | 597 | 1.7 ppb |
| Neosho Co Rwd 12 | 437 | 0 (not detected) |
| Neosho Co Rwd 8 | 323 | 0 (not detected) |
| Neosho Co Rwd 6 | 314 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Thayer, KS
Look up your address in Thayer, City Of'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 Thayer, 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.