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Community Water System · PWS KS2001524

Towanda, City Of

Operator location Towanda, Kansas - 16% of 50 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); surface water source; 1,445 served per SDWIS.

1,445
People served (this PWS)
50
EPA violations (this PWS)
8
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Towanda, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third

16% of 50 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 16% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #16,318 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Towanda, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (50), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,445 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 16% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#16,318 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#214 of 424
Population · KS
50
Total EPA violations on record
16%
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
629
County
Butler
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
8
Monitoring Violations
37
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MR 11 2023
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 11 2023
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 8 2017
Lead and Copper Rule MR 4 2025
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 4 2024
Chlorine MR 4 2024
Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule MR 3 2010
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 1 2000
Public Notice Other 1 2017

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Towanda, City Of has 50 recorded EPA violations, 56% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 43% carry more. 16% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 50), and it ranks #16,318 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)

50 Around the middle fewer violations than 43% 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 Towanda, City Of

8 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2001524.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

50 violations · 1,445 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems near this violation count

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