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Community Water System · PWS KS2019101

Sumner Co RWD 5

Operator location Conway Springs, Kansas - 63% of 239 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,429 served per SDWIS.

1,429
People served (this PWS)
239
EPA violations (this PWS)
150
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Sumner Co RWD 5 standing, high SDWIS violation third

63% of 239 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 63% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #16,386 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Sumner Co RWD 5 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (239), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,429 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 63% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#16,386 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#217 of 424
Population · KS
239
Total EPA violations on record
63%
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
363
County
Sumner
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
150
Monitoring Violations
61
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate MCL 150 2015
Lead and Copper Rule MR 20 2018
TTHM MR 16 2024
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 16 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 9 1995
Public Notice Other 7 2015
Groundwater Rule Other 4 2017
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 2 2006
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 1 2025

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Sumner Co RWD 5 has 239 recorded EPA violations, 88% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 12% carry more. 63% of this system's own violations are health-based (150 of 239), and it ranks #16,386 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)

239 Higher than most more violations than 88% 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 Sumner Co RWD 5

150 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2019101.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

239 violations · 1,429 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Sumner Co RWD 5

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater