Community Water System · PWS KS2004901
Howard, City Of
Operator location Howard, Kansas - 66% of 197 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 583 served per SDWIS.
- 583
- People served (this PWS)
- 197
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 131
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Howard, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
66% of 197 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 66% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #26,826 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Howard, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (197), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (583; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 66% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #26,826 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #401 of 424
- Population · KS
- 197
- Total EPA violations on record
- 66%
- 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
- 454
- County
- Elk
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 89
- Monitoring Violations
- 51
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 42
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 45 | 2006 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 44 | 2012 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 27 | 2022 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 26 | 1998 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | TT | 16 | 2012 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 7 | 2001 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 6 | 2015 |
| Atrazine | MR | 5 | 2017 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2022 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | Other | 1 | 1994 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Howard, City Of has 197 recorded EPA violations, 85% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 15% carry more. 66% of this system's own violations are health-based (131 of 197), and it ranks #26,826 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)
197 Higher than most more violations than 85% 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 Howard, City Of
131 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2004901.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
197 violations · 583 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Howard, 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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