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Community Water System · PWS KS2012520

Elk City, City Of

Operator location Elk City, Kansas - 80% of 1,064 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 292 served per SDWIS.

292
People served (this PWS)
1,064
EPA violations (this PWS)
851
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Elk City, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

80% of 1,064 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 80% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Elk City, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (1,064), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (292; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 80% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

1,064
Total EPA violations on record
80%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
292
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
169
County
Montgomery
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
807
Monitoring Violations
137
Treatment Tech Violations
44

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 407 2024
TTHM MCL 400 2023
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 64 2020
Public Notice Other 62 2021
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 24 2003
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 22 2024
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 17 2020
CARBON, TOTAL TT 15 2006
Chlorine MR 10 2024
CARBON, TOTAL MR 8 2020
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 7 2010
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 5 2005
TTHM MR 5 2010
Lead and Copper Rule MR 2 2019
Coliform (TCR) MR 2 2001

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Elk City, City Of has 1,064 recorded EPA violations, 99% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 1% carry more. 80% of this system's own violations are health-based (851 of 1,064), 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)

1,064 Higher than most more violations than 99% 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 Elk City, City Of

851 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2012520.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

1,064 violations · 292 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 Elk City, 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