White Cloud, City Of, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.41 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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
White Cloud, City Of serves about 115 people through 123 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 Doniphan County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2004309; phone on file: 785-850-7340. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
White Cloud, City Of's lead record
That is up 1.41 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for White Cloud, City Of is 3.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.41 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.1 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. White Cloud, City Of's 1.41 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Kansas and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Doniphan County
7 other systems share Doniphan County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than White Cloud, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Doniphan Co Rwd 5 | 1,457 | 1.8 ppb |
| Wathena, City Of | 1,242 | 1.9 ppb |
| Elwood, City Of | 1,114 | 1 ppb |
| Troy, City Of | 954 | 0 (not detected) |
| Highland, City Of | 917 | 2.07 ppb |
| Doniphan Co Rwd 3 | 437 | 1.08 ppb |
| Doniphan Co Rwd 6 | 428 | 3.4 ppb |
Next steps for White Cloud, KS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; White Cloud, 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 White Cloud, 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.