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Community Water System · PWS KS2010901

Oakley, City Of

Operator location Oakley, Kansas - 64% of 127 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,026 served per SDWIS.

2,026
People served (this PWS)
127
EPA violations (this PWS)
81
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Oakley, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

64% of 127 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 64% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #13,434 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Oakley, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (127), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,026 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 64% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#13,434 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#156 of 424
Population · KS
127
Total EPA violations on record
64%
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
1,075
County
Logan
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
81
Monitoring Violations
26
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate MCL 73 2025
Coliform (TCR) MR 15 2013
Coliform (TCR) MCL 8 1996
Public Notice Other 4 2020
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2010
Barium MR 1 2003
Cadmium MR 1 2003
Chromium MR 1 2003
Mercury MR 1 2003
Beryllium, Total MR 1 2003
Thallium, Total MR 1 2003
Selenium MR 1 2003
Nickel MR 1 2003
Antimony, Total MR 1 2003
Arsenic MR 1 2003
Fluoride MR 1 2003

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Oakley, City Of has 127 recorded EPA violations, 78% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 22% carry more. 64% of this system's own violations are health-based (81 of 127), and it ranks #13,434 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)

127 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 Oakley, City Of

81 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2010901.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

127 violations · 2,026 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Oakley, 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