Wilson Co Rwd 12, KS
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.4 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Wilson Co Rwd 12 at a glance
Wilson Co Rwd 12 serves about 123 people through 44 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 surface water, in Wilson County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2020501; phone on file: 620-325-3535. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 4.4 ppb from 6 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wilson Co Rwd 12 is 10.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 10.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 6 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 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. Wilson Co Rwd 12's 10.4 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Kansas and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Wilson County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Wilson Co Rwd 12. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Neodesha, City Of | 2,246 | 3.4 ppb |
| Fredonia, City Of | 2,111 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wilson Co Rwd 11 | 836 | 1.2 ppb |
| Wilson Co Rwd 10 | 808 | 1.9 ppb |
| Wilson Co Rwd 7 | 585 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wilson Co Rwd 9 | 447 | 1.6 ppb |
| Altoona, City Of | 349 | 2.72 ppb |
| Wilson Co Rwd 1 | 307 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wilson Co Rwd 4 | 293 | 15.4 ppb |
| Wilson Co Rwd 13 | 223 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Neodesha, 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 Wilson Co Rwd 12 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.