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Bourbon County, Kansas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet KS011 · Bourbon County 6 sys · 548 viol · #1939/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 47.8% health
  • RANK-MID #1939/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 6 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Johnson County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Bourbon County ranks #1,939 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #33 of 105 counties in Kansas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Bourbon County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 47.8% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 50.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,939 of 3,254 · #33 of 105 in Kansas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Bourbon County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Bourbon County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Chase · lowest Greeley · highest Wyandotte · near Leavenworth · near 85.7% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Fort Scott, City Of 7,513 50 Detected
Bourbon Co RWD 2C 7,050 25 Clean
Bourbon Co RWD 4 1,161 215 -
Bronson, City Of 305 137 -
Uniontown, City Of 296 72 -
Fulton, City Of 165 49 -

Compare beyond Kansas

Mid-flagged peers for Bourbon County

Cross-state counties nearest Bourbon County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (548). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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