Montgomery Co RWD 1

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: 175 people
Connections: 67
Water source: Surface water bought from another system
Based in: Independence, KS
County: Montgomery
Owner: Local government
Hardness: Hard

The ZIP code it serves

67301

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. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What was found

Haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): Kansas’s own results, samples taken from Sept. 13, 2020 to Sept. 8, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits2

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

40ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025, one sample: 35 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 40 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 35 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 30 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

44ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026, one sample: 29 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 44 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 29 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 36 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

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

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

Lead

Hardness

Hard, 130 mg/L (7.6 grains per gallon), at its one sampling point, in 2019.

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 7.6 grains per gallon, salt included Softener or salt-free conditioner?Kansas water hardness, utility by utility

Violations since 2016

Contaminant or rule	Type	Period	Measured	Status
Lead and Copper Rule	Required information about lead was not given to customers.EPA: Public Education	Jan. 1, 2020	—	Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 2 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

Everything else. Haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) results here are Kansas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Montgomery Co RWD 1’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 Sept. 13, 2020 to Sept. 8, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Montgomery Co RWD 1’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.

The lab Kansas certifies closest to the area Montgomery Co RWD 1 serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.