Community Water System · PWS KS2011312
Galva, City Of
Operator location Galva, Kansas - 30% of 47 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 870 served per SDWIS.
- 870
- People served (this PWS)
- 47
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 14
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Galva, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
30% of 47 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 30% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #21,531 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Galva, 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 (870; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 30% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #21,531 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #321 of 424
- Population · KS
- 47
- Total EPA violations on record
- 30%
- 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
- 480
- County
- McPherson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 13
- Monitoring Violations
- 23
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 13 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 1997 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Atrazine | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Arsenic | MR | 3 | 2017 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2010 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2019 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 1 | 1994 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 1 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Galva, 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. 30% of this system's own violations are health-based (14 of 47), and it ranks #21,531 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)
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
Health-based violations on Galva, City Of
14 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2011312.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
47 violations · 870 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Galva, 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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