Community Water System · PWS KS2013102
Seneca, City Of
Operator location Seneca, Kansas - 58% of 12 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,130 served per SDWIS.
- 2,130
- People served (this PWS)
- 12
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 7
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Seneca, City Of standing, low SDWIS violation third
58% of 12 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 58% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #13,078 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Seneca, City Of is in the lower third by violation count (12; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is mid-pack at 2,130 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 58% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,078 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #146 of 424
- Population · KS
- 12
- Total EPA violations on record
- 58%
- 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
- 1,364
- County
- Nemaha
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 1
- Monitoring Violations
- 0
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 6
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 6 | 2003 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 1 | 2000 |
| Selenium | MCL | 1 | 1978 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Seneca, City Of has 12 recorded EPA violations, 21% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 78% carry more. 58% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 12), and it ranks #13,078 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)
12 Among the lowest violation counts fewer 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 Seneca, City Of
7 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2013102.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
12 violations · 2,130 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
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 Seneca, City Of
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