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Shawnee County, Kansas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet KS177 · Shawnee County 9 sys · 551 viol · #414/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 58.8% health
  • RANK-TOP #414/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 75.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 78%
  • SYS-TINY 9 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, Shawnee County ranks #414 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #5 of 105 counties in Kansas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Shawnee 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 58.8% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 75.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #414 of 3,254 · #5 of 105 in Kansas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Shawnee County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Chase · lowest Greeley · highest Wyandotte · near Riley · 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
Topeka, City Of 125,963 14 Detected
Shawnee Co RWD 4C 12,000 2 Detected
Shawnee Co RWD 8 6,073 45 Detected
Shawnee Co RWD 1C 4,160 58 Clean
Shawnee Co RWD 3C 2,675 148 -
Silver Lake, City Of 1,337 22 -
Rossville, City Of 1,099 21 -
Shawnee Co RWD 2C 700 114 -
Metro Topeka Airport Authority 500 127 -

Compare beyond Kansas

Mid-flagged peers for Shawnee County

Cross-state counties nearest Shawnee County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (551). 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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