Wallace, City Of, 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 Wallace, City Of
Wallace, City Of serves about 45 people through 49 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 Wallace County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2019902; phone on file: 620-927-0079. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Wallace, City Of's lead record
That is down 9.6 ppb from 9.6 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wallace, City Of is 9.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 9.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 6 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. Wallace, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 0th percentile in Kansas and the 3rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
2 other systems share Wallace County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wallace, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sharon Springs, City Of | 744 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wallace Co Rwd 1 | 245 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Wallace, KS
Look up your address in Wallace, 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 Wallace, 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.