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Community Water System · PWS KS2009301

Lakin, City Of

Operator location Lakin, Kansas - 73% of 128 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,166 served per SDWIS.

2,166
People served (this PWS)
128
EPA violations (this PWS)
94
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Lakin, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

73% of 128 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 73% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,968 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Lakin, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (128), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,166 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 73% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#12,968 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#143 of 424
Population · KS
128
Total EPA violations on record
73%
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
984
County
Kearny
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
94
Monitoring Violations
22
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Combined Uranium MCL 88 2014
TTHM MR 8 2019
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 8 2019
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2015
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MCL 4 2007
Public Notice Other 3 2014
Lead and Copper Rule MR 3 2016
Nitrate MR 3 1997
Selenium MCL 2 1986
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 1 2025

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Lakin, City Of has 128 recorded EPA violations, 78% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 22% carry more. 73% of this system's own violations are health-based (94 of 128), and it ranks #12,968 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)

128 Higher than most more violations than 78% 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 Lakin, City Of

94 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2009301.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

128 violations · 2,166 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 Lakin, 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