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Community Water System · PWS KS2019103

Sumner Co RWD 4

Operator location Arkansas City, Kansas - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 81 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,157 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,157
People served (this PWS)
81
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Sumner Co RWD 4 standing, high SDWIS violation third

81 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #18,209 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Sumner Co RWD 4 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (81), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,157 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#18,209 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#259 of 424
Population · KS
81
Total EPA violations on record
5%
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
366
County
Sumner
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
4
Monitoring Violations
72
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MR 20 2023
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 20 2023
Coliform (TCR) MR 17 2011
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 9 2025
Chlorine MR 5 2025
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 2013
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 1993

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Sumner Co RWD 4 has 81 recorded EPA violations, 69% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 31% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 81), and it ranks #18,209 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)

81 Around the middle fewer violations than 31% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for Sumner Co RWD 4

81 violations on record for KS2019103; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

81 violations · 1,157 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 4

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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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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