WICHITA — About 18 private and government water systems in mostly small towns or rural areas in Kansas have had reported lead levels in their water samples exceeding federal limits, according to Environmental Protection Agency records examined by The Associated Press.
Those agencies are among the nearly 1,400 water systems serving 3.7 million Americans that have violated the federal lead standard at least once between Jan. 1, 2013 and Sept. 30, 2015, and are listed on the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Information System.