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Community Water System · PWS KS2000304

Garnett, City Of

Operator location Garnett, Kansas - 24% of 196 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 3,192 served per SDWIS.

3,192
People served (this PWS)
196
EPA violations (this PWS)
48
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Garnett, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

24% of 196 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 24% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #10,188 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Garnett, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (196), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 3,192 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 24% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#10,188 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#96 of 424
Population · KS
196
Total EPA violations on record
24%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
1,700
County
Anderson
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
44
Monitoring Violations
134
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 36 2013
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 15 2025
TTHM MR 15 2025
TTHM MCL 8 2013
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 6 1989
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 6 1989
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 6 1989
Vinyl chloride MR 6 1989
Benzene MR 6 1989
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 6 1989
Carbon tetrachloride MR 6 1989
Chlorite MR 6 2025
Endrin MR 4 2016
BHC-GAMMA MR 4 2016
Methoxychlor MR 4 2016
Simazine MR 4 2016
Atrazine MR 4 2016
Heptachlor MR 4 2016
Heptachlor epoxide MR 4 2016
HEXACHLOROBENZENE MR 4 2016
Public Notice Other 4 2013
Trichloroethylene MR 4 1989
LASSO MR 4 2016
CARBON, TOTAL TT 4 2015
Lead and Copper Rule MR 4 2016
Toxaphene MR 4 2016
Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) MR 4 2016
Chlordane MR 4 2016
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 1 2025

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Garnett, City Of has 196 recorded EPA violations, 85% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 15% carry more. 24% of this system's own violations are health-based (48 of 196), and it ranks #10,188 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

196 Higher than most more violations than 85% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Garnett, City Of

48 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2000304.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

196 violations · 3,192 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems with comparable violation load

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Garnett, City Of

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Kansas compares on the same EPA violation measures. Kansas systems
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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