Yates Center, City Of, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.2 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.
Yates Center, City Of at a glance
Yates Center, City Of serves about 1,335 people through 833 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Woodson County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2020702; phone on file: 620-625-2118. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Yates Center, City Of is 2.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Yates Center, City Of's 2.2 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Kansas and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Woodson County
2 other systems share Woodson County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Yates Center, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Woodson Co Rwd 1 | 1,773 | 1.5 ppb |
| Toronto, City Of | 203 | 2.1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Yates Center, 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 Yates Center, 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.