Community Water System · PWS KS2014105
Osborne, City Of
Operator location Osborne, Kansas - 67% of 48 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,324 served per SDWIS.
- 1,324
- People served (this PWS)
- 48
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 32
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Osborne, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
67% of 48 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 67% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #16,996 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Osborne, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (48), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,324 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 67% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,996 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #231 of 424
- Population · KS
- 48
- Total EPA violations on record
- 67%
- 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
- 771
- County
- Osborne
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 32
- Monitoring Violations
- 9
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 16 | 2009 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 16 | 1988 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 7 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2009 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 1 | 2025 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 1 | 2025 |
| TTHM | MR | 1 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Osborne, City Of has 48 recorded EPA violations, 55% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 67% of this system's own violations are health-based (32 of 48), and it ranks #16,996 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)
48 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% 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 Osborne, City Of
32 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2014105.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
48 violations · 1,324 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 Osborne, 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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