Community Water System · PWS KS2013907
Osage City, City Of
Operator location Osage City, Kansas - 53% of 30 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,809 served per SDWIS.
- 2,809
- People served (this PWS)
- 30
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 16
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Osage City, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
53% 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 53% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #11,087 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Osage City, 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 2,809 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 53% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,087 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #107 of 424
- Population · KS
- 30
- Total EPA violations on record
- 53%
- 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
- 1,331
- County
- Osage
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 12
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 12
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 12 | 2019 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 8 | 1997 |
| Atrazine | MCL | 4 | 1996 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 4 | 2006 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 1 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Osage City, 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. 53% of this system's own violations are health-based (16 of 30), and it ranks #11,087 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 Osage City, City Of
16 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2013907.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
30 violations · 2,809 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 Osage City, City Of
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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