Community Water System · PWS KS2008513
Whiting, City Of
Operator location Whiting, Kansas - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 196 people served; 71 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 196
- People served (this PWS)
- 71
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 13
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Whiting, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
196 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 18% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Whiting, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (71), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (196; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 18% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 71
- Total EPA violations on record
- 18%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 196
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
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
- 103
- County
- Jackson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 12
- Monitoring Violations
- 31
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 16 | 2006 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 12 | 2002 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 8 | 2006 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 7 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2023 |
| Chlorine | MR | 3 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 1 | 1994 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Whiting, City Of has 71 recorded EPA violations, 65% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 34% carry more. 18% of this system's own violations are health-based (13 of 71), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
71 Around the middle fewer violations than 34% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Whiting, City Of
EPA SDWIS lists 196 people served and 103 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
71 violations · 196 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.
What to do with Whiting, 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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