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Community Water System · PWS KS2000510

Atchison Co RWD 6

Operator location Atchison, Kansas - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 670 people served; 147 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.

670
People served (this PWS)
147
EPA violations (this PWS)
25
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Atchison Co RWD 6 standing, high SDWIS violation third

670 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 17% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #24,878 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Atchison Co RWD 6 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (147), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (670; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 17% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#24,878 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#376 of 424
Population · KS
147
Total EPA violations on record
17%
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
327
County
Atchison
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
25
Monitoring Violations
78
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 37 2014
Public Notice Other 25 2016
Lead and Copper Rule MR 25 2016
Coliform (TCR) MCL 20 2007
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 16 2015
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 8 2014
TTHM MR 8 2014
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 4 2015
TTHM MCL 1 2015

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Atchison Co RWD 6 has 147 recorded EPA violations, 81% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 19% carry more. 17% of this system's own violations are health-based (25 of 147), and it ranks #24,878 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)

147 Higher than most more violations than 81% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Atchison Co RWD 6

EPA SDWIS lists 670 people served and 327 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

147 violations · 670 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 with smaller service footprints

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

4 peers

What to do with Atchison Co RWD 6

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