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Community Water System · PWS KS2008710

Valley Falls, City Of

Operator location Valley Falls, Kansas - 69% of 156 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,086 served per SDWIS.

1,086
People served (this PWS)
156
EPA violations (this PWS)
107
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Valley Falls, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

69% of 156 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 69% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #18,727 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Valley Falls, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (156), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,086 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 69% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#18,727 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#271 of 424
Population · KS
156
Total EPA violations on record
69%
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
495
County
Jefferson
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
103
Monitoring Violations
27
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 60 2008
TTHM MCL 39 2023
Public Notice Other 14 2023
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 8 2020
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 8 2020
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 4 2001
Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 4 2020
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 2002
TTHM MR 3 2022
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 3 2022
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 1993
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 1 2002

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Valley Falls, City Of has 156 recorded EPA violations, 82% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 18% carry more. 69% of this system's own violations are health-based (107 of 156), and it ranks #18,727 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)

156 Higher than most more violations than 82% 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 Valley Falls, City Of

107 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2008710.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

156 violations · 1,086 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.

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 Valley Falls, 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