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Community Water System · PWS KS2003101

Burlington, City Of

Operator location Burlington, Kansas - 65% of 182 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,641 served per SDWIS.

2,641
People served (this PWS)
182
EPA violations (this PWS)
119
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Burlington, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

65% of 182 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 65% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #11,497 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Burlington, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (182), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,641 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 65% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#11,497 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#116 of 424
Population · KS
182
Total EPA violations on record
65%
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
1,343
County
Coffey
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
99
Monitoring Violations
60
Treatment Tech Violations
20

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 59 2016
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 40 2007
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 39 2006
CARBON, TOTAL TT 20 2006
CARBON, TOTAL MR 9 2018
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2014
TTHM MR 4 2020
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 4 2020
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 2 2001

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Burlington, City Of has 182 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 65% of this system's own violations are health-based (119 of 182), and it ranks #11,497 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)

182 Higher than most more violations than 84% 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 Burlington, City Of

119 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2003101.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

182 violations · 2,641 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 Burlington, City Of

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