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Community Water System · PWS KS2004106

Dickinson Co RWD 2

Operator location Abilene, Kansas - 40% of 43 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,703 served per SDWIS.

1,703
People served (this PWS)
43
EPA violations (this PWS)
17
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Dickinson Co RWD 2 standing, mid SDWIS violation third

40% of 43 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 40% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #14,873 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Dickinson Co RWD 2 lands in the middle third by violation volume (43), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,703 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 40% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#14,873 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#186 of 424
Population · KS
43
Total EPA violations on record
40%
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
688
County
Dickinson
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
16
Monitoring Violations
15
Treatment Tech Violations
1

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate MCL 16 1998
Coliform (TCR) MR 9 2003
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 4 2019
Lead and Copper Rule MR 2 1994
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 1 2001
Lead and Copper Rule TT 1 1994

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Dickinson Co RWD 2 has 43 recorded EPA violations, 52% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 47% carry more. 40% of this system's own violations are health-based (17 of 43), and it ranks #14,873 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)

43 Around the middle fewer violations than 47% 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 Dickinson Co RWD 2

17 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2004106.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

43 violations · 1,703 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Dickinson Co RWD 2

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