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Community Water System · PWS KS2012305

Glen Elder, City Of

Operator location Glen Elder, Kansas - 68% of 114 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 359 served per SDWIS.

359
People served (this PWS)
114
EPA violations (this PWS)
78
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Glen Elder, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

68% of 114 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 68% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Glen Elder, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (114), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (359; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 68% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

114
Total EPA violations on record
68%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
359
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
Local
Connections
306
County
Mitchell
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
77
Monitoring Violations
29
Treatment Tech Violations
1

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Selenium MCL 61 2019
Lead and Copper Rule MR 18 2023
Arsenic MCL 12 2012
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 4 2024
Chlorine MR 4 2024
Nitrate MCL 4 1994
Coliform (TCR) MR 3 1996
Public Notice Other 2 2017
Lead and Copper Rule TT 1 1994

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Glen Elder, City Of has 114 recorded EPA violations, 76% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 24% carry more. 68% of this system's own violations are health-based (78 of 114), 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)

114 Higher than most more violations than 76% 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 Glen Elder, City Of

78 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2012305.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

114 violations · 359 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Glen Elder, 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