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Geary County, Kansas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet KS061 · Geary County 16 sys · 997 viol · #843/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 41.5% health
  • RANK-UPPER #843/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 94%
  • SYS-SMALL 16 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, Geary County ranks #843 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #8 of 105 counties in Kansas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Geary 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 41.5% 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 #843 of 3,254 · #8 of 105 in Kansas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Geary County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Geary 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

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Mid-flagged peers for Geary County

Cross-state counties nearest Geary County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (997). 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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