Community Water System · PWS KS2015902
Sterling, City Of
Operator location Sterling, Kansas - 42% of 60 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,318 served per SDWIS.
- 2,318
- People served (this PWS) Middle third of systems
- 60
- EPA violations (this PWS) Middle third of systems
- 25
- Health-based (this PWS) Upper third by health-based share
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS) No UCMR5 result
Sterling, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
42% of 60 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 42% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,507 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Sterling, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (60), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,318 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 42% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,507 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #132 of 424
- Population · KS
- 60
- Total EPA violations on record
- 42%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
Based on EPA SDWIS violation history and UCMR5 PFAS testing only, not water taste, odor, infrastructure age, or contaminants outside the federally tracked set.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 995
- County
- Rice
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 25
- Monitoring Violations
- 21
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MCL | 21 | 2001 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 16 | 2004 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2025 |
| Combined Uranium | MCL | 4 | 2011 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2002 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Sterling, City Of has 60 recorded EPA violations, 61% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 38% carry more. 42% of this system's own violations are health-based (25 of 60), and it ranks #12,507 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)
60 Around the middle fewer violations than 38% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
How many violations vs. how serious, among peer systems
Sterling, City Of plotted against 29 peer public water systems (500+ people served), by total violation count (x) and the share of those violations that are health-based (y). The crosshair sits at this sample's own median on each axis. A high violation count does not automatically mean a serious record: most monitoring and reporting violations are minor, not health-based.
Violation volume vs. health-based share
Health-based violations on Sterling, City Of
25 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2015902.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
60 violations · 2,318 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 Sterling, 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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