Whiting, City Of, KS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.2 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Whiting, City Of serves about 196 people through 103 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 Jackson County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2008513; phone on file: 785-873-3535. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Whiting, City Of's lead record
That is up 2.4 ppb from 0.8 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Whiting, City Of is 15.1 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 15.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 15.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.5 ppb |
How Whiting, City Of 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. Whiting, City Of's 3.2 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Kansas and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Jackson County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Whiting, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jackson Co Rwd 3 | 4,376 | 3.76 ppb |
| Holton, City Of | 3,329 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson Co Rwd 1 | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hoyt, City Of | 599 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mayetta, City Of | 356 | 4.4 ppb |
| Circleville, City Of | 155 | 2.1 ppb |
| Delia, City Of | 149 | 3.3 ppb |
| Denison, City Of | 145 | 2.42 ppb |
| Netawaka, City Of | 141 | 0 (not detected) |
| Soldier, City Of | 102 | 1.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Whiting, 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 Whiting, City Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1500 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.