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Community Water System · PWS KS2009911

Great Plains Development Authority

Operator location Parsons, Kansas - 75% of 178 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 182 served per SDWIS.

182
People served (this PWS)
178
EPA violations (this PWS)
134
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Great Plains Development Authority standing, high SDWIS violation third

75% of 178 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 75% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Great Plains Development Authority sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (178), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (182; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 75% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

178
Total EPA violations on record
75%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
182
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
Private
Connections
9
County
Labette
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
108
Monitoring Violations
41
Treatment Tech Violations
26

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 49 2012
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 40 2010
CARBON, TOTAL TT 20 2006
Chlorite MR 18 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 16 2012
Chlorite MCL 12 2015
Lead and Copper Rule MR 7 2025
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 6 2008
Atrazine MCL 4 1996
Coliform (TCR) MCL 3 2010
Public Notice Other 2 2010
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 1 1999

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Great Plains Development Authority has 178 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 75% of this system's own violations are health-based (134 of 178), 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)

178 Higher than most more violations than 84% 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 Great Plains Development Authority

134 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2009911.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

178 violations · 182 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 Great Plains Development Authority

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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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