Community Water System · PWS KS2013701
Almena, City Of
Operator location Almena, Kansas - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 366 people served; 454 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 366
- People served (this PWS)
- 454
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 90
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Almena, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
366 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 20% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Almena, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (454), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (366; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 20% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 454
- Total EPA violations on record
- 20%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 366
- 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
- 216
- County
- Norton
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 90
- Monitoring Violations
- 361
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MCL | 47 | 2003 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 30 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 27 | 2013 |
| Selenium | MCL | 16 | 1998 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| Benzene | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| Toluene | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| Atrazine | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| Styrene | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 10 | 2018 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 8 | 2022 |
| Barium | MR | 8 | 2018 |
| Cadmium | MR | 8 | 2018 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Almena, City Of has 454 recorded EPA violations, 95% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 5% carry more. 20% of this system's own violations are health-based (90 of 454), 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)
454 Higher than most more violations than 95% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Almena, City Of
EPA SDWIS lists 366 people served and 216 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
454 violations · 366 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.
What to do with Almena, City Of
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