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Community Water System · PWS KS2008906

Burr Oak, City Of

Operator location Burr Oak, Kansas - 52% of 207 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 142 served per SDWIS.

142
People served (this PWS)
207
EPA violations (this PWS)
108
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Burr Oak, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

52% of 207 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 52% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Burr Oak, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (207), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (142; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 52% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

207
Total EPA violations on record
52%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
142
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
114
County
Jewell
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
108
Monitoring Violations
74
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Selenium MCL 65 2020
Coliform (TCR) MR 53 2002
Nitrate MCL 30 2002
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 11 2023
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 8 2019
Nitrate MR 5 2002
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MCL 5 1986
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 2000
Lead and Copper Rule MR 4 2020
Selenium MR 4 1997
Combined Uranium MCL 4 2021
Coliform (TCR) Other 2 1998
Public Notice Other 2 2019

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Burr Oak, City Of has 207 recorded EPA violations, 86% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 14% carry more. 52% of this system's own violations are health-based (108 of 207), 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)

207 Higher than most more violations than 86% 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 Burr Oak, City Of

108 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2008906.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

207 violations · 142 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

What to do with Burr Oak, 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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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