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Community Water System · PWS KS2008904

Esbon, City Of

Operator location Esbon, Kansas - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 68 people served; 47 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

68
People served (this PWS)
47
EPA violations (this PWS)
2
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Esbon, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third

68 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Esbon, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (47), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (68; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

47
Total EPA violations on record
4%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
68
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
87
County
Jewell
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
1
Monitoring Violations
33
Treatment Tech Violations
1

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 9 2017
TTHM MR 9 2017
Lead and Copper Rule MR 6 2018
Coliform (TCR) MR 5 2015
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 4 2024
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 3 2022
Public Notice Other 1 2016
Selenium MCL 1 1987
Lead and Copper Rule TT 1 1994
Chlorine MR 1 2022

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Esbon, City Of has 47 recorded EPA violations, 55% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 45% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 47), 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)

47 Around the middle fewer violations than 45% 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 Esbon, City Of

EPA SDWIS lists 68 people served and 87 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

47 violations · 68 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Esbon, 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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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