West Hills Subdivision, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
West Hills Subdivision serves about 75 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Reno County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2015519; phone on file: 620-931-7663. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
West Hills Subdivision's lead record
That is up 1.6 ppb from 0.9 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for West Hills Subdivision is 2.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.9 ppb |
How West Hills Subdivision 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. West Hills Subdivision's 2.5 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Kansas and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Reno County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than West Hills Subdivision. 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) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hutchinson, 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 West Hills Subdivision 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.