Valley Center, City Of, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.2 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Valley Center, City Of serves about 7,419 people through 2,249 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Sedgwick County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2017318; phone on file: 316-755-7320. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Valley Center, City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (3.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Valley Center, City Of is 4.2 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.8 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. Valley Center, City Of's 4.2 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Kansas and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sedgwick County
22 other systems share Sedgwick County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Valley Center, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wichita, City Of | 395,699 | 1.42 ppb |
| Derby, City Of | 25,413 | 1.3 ppb |
| Haysville, City Of | 11,315 | 1.26 ppb |
| Park City, City Of | 8,503 | 1.9 ppb |
| Bel Aire, City Of | 8,448 | 3.7 ppb |
| Maize, City Of | 6,060 | 1.2 ppb |
| Sedgwick Co Rwd 3 | 6,045 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcconnell Afb | 6,009 | 3 ppb |
| Goddard, City Of | 5,372 | 3.7 ppb |
| Clearwater, City Of | 2,626 | 1.38 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Valley Center, 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 Valley Center, 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.