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Lyon County, Kansas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet KS111 · Lyon County 12 sys · 467 viol · #1348/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-SW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 25.3% health
  • RANK-MID #1348/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 12 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, Lyon County ranks #1,348 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #17 of 105 counties in Kansas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Lyon 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 25.3% 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 #1,348 of 3,254 · #17 of 105 in Kansas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Lyon County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Lyon 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
Emporia, City Of 24,009 41 Clean
Lyon Co RWD 1 1,595 76 -
Lyon Co RWD 5 1,310 19 -
Lyon Co RWD 4 980 22 -
Lyon Co RWD 2 750 22 -
Olpe, City Of 513 6 -
Lyon Co RWD 3 479 34 -
Hartford, City Of 356 78 -
Park Place Communities Mgt LLC 200 39 -
Reading, City Of 182 65 -
Allen, City Of 159 42 -
Admire, City Of 130 23 -

Compare beyond Kansas

Mid-flagged peers for Lyon County

Cross-state counties nearest Lyon County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (467). 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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