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Community Water System · PWS KS2001902

Cedar Vale, City Of

Operator location Cedar Vale, Kansas - 41% of 97 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 475 served per SDWIS.

475
People served (this PWS)
97
EPA violations (this PWS)
40
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Cedar Vale, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

41% of 97 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 41% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Cedar Vale, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (97), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (475; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 41% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

97
Total EPA violations on record
41%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
475
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

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
290
County
Chautauqua
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
25
Monitoring Violations
41
Treatment Tech Violations
15

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 19 2012
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 15 2002
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 15 2002
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 13 2025
Coliform (TCR) MCL 12 2001
Lead and Copper Rule MR 7 2016
Lead and Copper Rule Other 2 2000
Coliform (TCR) Other 1 1998
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 1 2000
Public Notice Other 1 2013

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Cedar Vale, City Of has 97 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 41% of this system's own violations are health-based (40 of 97), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

97 Around the middle fewer violations than 27% 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 Cedar Vale, City Of

40 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2001902.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

97 violations · 475 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

What to do with Cedar Vale, 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