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Community Water System · PWS KS2006105

Geary Co RWD 4

Operator location Milford, Kansas - 33% of 48 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,005 served per SDWIS.

1,005
People served (this PWS)
48
EPA violations (this PWS)
16
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Geary Co RWD 4 standing, mid SDWIS violation third

33% of 48 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 33% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #19,370 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Geary Co RWD 4 lands in the middle third by violation volume (48), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,005 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 33% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#19,370 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#287 of 424
Population · KS
48
Total EPA violations on record
33%
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
406
County
Geary
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
16
Monitoring Violations
17
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 15 1999
Arsenic MCL 12 2007
TTHM MCL 4 2006
Lead and Copper Rule MR 2 2020
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 1 1999

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Geary Co RWD 4 has 48 recorded EPA violations, 55% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 33% of this system's own violations are health-based (16 of 48), and it ranks #19,370 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)

48 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% 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 Geary Co RWD 4

16 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2006105.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

48 violations · 1,005 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Geary Co RWD 4

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater