Community Water System · PWS KS2003508
Cowley Co RWD 5
Operator location Burden, Kansas - 15% of 47 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); surface water source; 2,000 served per SDWIS.
- 2,000
- People served (this PWS)
- 47
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 7
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Cowley Co RWD 5 standing, mid SDWIS violation third
15% of 47 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 15% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #13,568 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Cowley Co RWD 5 lands in the middle third by violation volume (47), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,000 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 15% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,568 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #159 of 424
- Population · KS
- 47
- Total EPA violations on record
- 15%
- 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
- 767
- County
- Cowley
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 7
- Monitoring Violations
- 21
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 15 | 2012 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 7 | 2014 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2025 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2006 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 3 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | Other | 3 | 1997 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Cowley Co RWD 5 has 47 recorded EPA violations, 55% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 45% carry more. 15% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 47), and it ranks #13,568 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)
47 Around the middle fewer violations than 45% 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 Cowley Co RWD 5
7 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2003508.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
47 violations · 2,000 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.
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 5
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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