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Community Water System · PWS KS2005509

Holcomb, City Of

Operator location Holcomb, Kansas - 31% of 58 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,228 served per SDWIS.

2,228
People served (this PWS)
58
EPA violations (this PWS)
18
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Holcomb, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third

31% of 58 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 31% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,762 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Holcomb, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (58), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,228 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 31% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#12,762 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#139 of 424
Population · KS
58
Total EPA violations on record
31%
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
775
County
Finney
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
14
Monitoring Violations
30
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 14 2007
Public Notice Other 4 2017
Groundwater Rule TT 4 2017
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 3 2015
Chromium MR 3 2017
Mercury MR 3 2017
Antimony, Total MR 3 2017
Beryllium, Total MR 3 2017
Thallium, Total MR 3 2017
Barium MR 3 2017
Cadmium MR 3 2017
Selenium MR 3 2017
Arsenic MR 3 2017
Lead and Copper Rule MR 2 2019
Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule MR 1 2008

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Holcomb, City Of has 58 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 39% carry more. 31% of this system's own violations are health-based (18 of 58), and it ranks #12,762 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)

58 Around the middle fewer violations than 39% 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 Holcomb, City Of

18 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2005509.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

58 violations · 2,228 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.

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 Holcomb, 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