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Community Water System · PWS KS2001312

Brown Co RWD 2

Operator location Powhattan, Kansas - 90% of 69 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 724 served per SDWIS.

724
People served (this PWS)
69
EPA violations (this PWS)
62
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Brown Co RWD 2 standing, mid SDWIS violation third

90% of 69 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 90% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #23,888 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Brown Co RWD 2 lands in the middle third by violation volume (69), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (724; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 90% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#23,888 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#358 of 424
Population · KS
69
Total EPA violations on record
90%
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
560
County
Brown
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
59
Monitoring Violations
6
Treatment Tech Violations
3

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate MCL 55 2015
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 1999
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2000
Lead and Copper Rule TT 3 2005
Lead and Copper Rule MR 2 2025
Public Notice Other 1 2014

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Brown Co RWD 2 has 69 recorded EPA violations, 65% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 35% carry more. 90% of this system's own violations are health-based (62 of 69), and it ranks #23,888 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)

69 Around the middle fewer violations than 35% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Brown Co RWD 2

62 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2001312.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

69 violations · 724 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Brown Co RWD 2

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