City of Speed

What EPA’s and Kansas’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves: 36 people
Connections: 24
Water source: Groundwater bought from another system
Based in: Speed, KS
County: Phillips
Owner: Local government
Hardness: Very hard

The ZIP code it serves

67661

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and Kansas’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Kansas’s own results, samples taken from July 19, 2020 to Sept. 1, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

45ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

Averaged by year, the highest was 45 ppb, in 2026, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 120 ppb, in 2017.

What handles it

NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

11ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

Averaged by year, the highest was 11 ppb, in 2026, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 52 ppb, in 2017.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

One compound tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.

Lead

Hardness

Very hard, 785 mg/L (45.9 grains per gallon), at its one sampling point, 2015 to 2018.

Hardness is calcium and magnesium. EPA sets no limit for it: it shows up as scale on fixtures and in water heaters, and as soap that won’t lather. USGS calls water above 60 mg/L moderately hard, above 120 hard and above 180 very hard.

Softeners compared at 45.9 grains per gallon, salt included Softener or salt-free conditioner?Kansas water hardness, utility by utility

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 9 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are Kansas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. City of Speed’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.
Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.
What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.
Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Kansas’s results run from July 19, 2020 to Sept. 1, 2026.

Testing your own tap

City of Speed’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Kansas certifies.

No lab Kansas certifies is within 75 miles of the area City of Speed serves on the state’s list. Some take samples by mail; the state’s page lists them all.

All 47 certified labs for Kansas