Community Water System · PWS KS2011903
Plains, City Of
Operator location Plains, Kansas - 67% of 30 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,023 served per SDWIS.
- 1,023
- People served (this PWS)
- 30
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 20
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Plains, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
67% of 30 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 67% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #19,214 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Plains, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (30), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,023 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 67% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #19,214 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #282 of 424
- Population · KS
- 30
- Total EPA violations on record
- 67%
- 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
- 455
- County
- Meade
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 19
- Monitoring Violations
- 4
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MCL | 19 | 2004 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2016 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2007 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 1 | 2020 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Plains, City Of has 30 recorded EPA violations, 42% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 57% carry more. 67% of this system's own violations are health-based (20 of 30), and it ranks #19,214 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)
30 Lower than most fewer violations than 57% 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 Plains, City Of
20 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2011903.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
30 violations · 1,023 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Plains, City Of
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