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McPherson County, Kansas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet KS113 · McPherson County 15 sys · 625 viol · #1574/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 86.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 23.2% health
  • RANK-MID #1574/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±1.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 15 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Chase County ( -1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, McPherson County ranks #1,574 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #21 of 105 counties in Kansas. See methodology · corpus placement.

McPherson County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 86.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 23.2% is health-based share in the middle 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 #1,574 of 3,254 · #21 of 105 in Kansas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around McPherson County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Chase · lowest Seward · near Douglas · near 85.7% 86.7% 88.9% 90.9% 92.9% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
McPherson, City Of 13,944 16 Clean
Lindsborg, City Of 3,496 25 -
Moundridge, City Of 1,958 23 Clean
Inman, City Of 1,316 42 -
Galva, City Of 870 47 -
Canton, City Of 699 103 Clean
McPherson Co RWD 4 636 0 -
Marquette, City Of 596 134 -
McPherson Co RWD 6 500 16 -
Elyria Christian School 250 108 -
McPherson Co RWD 2 186 25 -
McPherson Co RWD 1 176 17 -
Windom, City Of 93 35 -
McPherson Co RWD 3 28 34 -
Battle Hill RV Park 25 0 -

Compare beyond Kansas

Lower-flagged peers for McPherson County

Cross-state counties nearest McPherson County on flagged-system share (86.7%) and cumulative violation count (625). 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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