Community Water System · PWS KS2003505
Cowley Co RWD 3
Operator location Arkansas City, Kansas - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 99 EPA violations; groundwater source; 2,500 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,500
- People served (this PWS)
- 99
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 8
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Cowley Co RWD 3 standing, high SDWIS violation third
99 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,901 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Cowley Co RWD 3 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (99), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,500 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,901 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #121 of 424
- Population · KS
- 99
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- 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
- 875
- County
- Cowley
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 8
- Monitoring Violations
- 70
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 9 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 8 | 1999 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 7 | 2024 |
| Chlorine | MR | 7 | 2024 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 5 | 2019 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Barium | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Chromium | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Mercury | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Selenium | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Cadmium | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2022 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Cowley Co RWD 3 has 99 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 99), and it ranks #11,901 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)
99 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
SDWIS compliance record for Cowley Co RWD 3
99 violations on record for KS2003505; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
99 violations · 2,500 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Cowley Co RWD 3
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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