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Seward County, Kansas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet KS175 · Seward County 9 sys · 325 viol · #1626/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-MID · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 88.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 22.2% health
  • RANK-MID #1626/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 2.0 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 9 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Nemaha County (+ 2 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Seward County ranks #1,626 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #24 of 105 counties in Kansas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Seward County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 88.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 22.2% 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 #1,626 of 3,254 · #24 of 105 in Kansas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Seward County

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

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

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

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Compare beyond Kansas

Lower-flagged peers for Seward County

Cross-state counties nearest Seward County on flagged-system share (88.9%) and cumulative violation count (325). 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.

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Similar violation load

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

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

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