Wellington, 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.
Wellington, City Of at a glance
Wellington, City Of serves about 7,664 people through 3,885 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 Sumner County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2019119; phone on file: 620-434-5353. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 7.9 ppb from 7.9 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wellington, City Of is 7.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 7.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.7 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. Wellington, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 31st percentile in Kansas and the 36th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Sumner County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wellington, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mulvane, City Of | 6,587 | 2.9 ppb |
| Belle Plaine, City Of | 1,468 | 2.9 ppb |
| Sumner Co Rwd 5 | 1,429 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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 Wellington, KS
Look up your address in Wellington, 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 Wellington, 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.