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Finney County, Kansas

18 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 47,281 people in Finney County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

18
SDWIS water systems Middle third of counties
1,522
Total violations Middle third of counties
94.4%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Middle third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (1 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet KS055 · Finney County 18 sys · 1,522 viol · #992/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-UPPER · ABOVE-PEER · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 94.4% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 31.6% health
  • RANK-UPPER #992/3254
  • ABOVE-PEER +1.3 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 18 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Sedgwick County ( -1.3 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Finney County ranks #992 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #12 of 105 counties in Kansas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Finney County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 94.4% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 31.6% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #992 of 3,254 · #12 of 105 in Kansas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Finney County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Chase · lowest Douglas · near Finney · this county Johnson · near 85.7% 90.9% 92.9% 93.1% 94.4% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

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Mid-flagged peers for Finney County

Cross-state counties nearest Finney County on flagged-system share (94.4%) and cumulative violation count (1,522). 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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