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Community Water System · PWS KS2019903

Sharon Springs, City Of

Operator location Sharon Springs, Kansas - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 744 people served; 51 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

744
People served (this PWS)
51
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Sharon Springs, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third

744 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #23,605 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Sharon Springs, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (51), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (744; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#23,605 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#356 of 424
Population · KS
51
Total EPA violations on record
8%
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
439
County
Wallace
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
4
Monitoring Violations
39
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 1996
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 2007
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 1 2003
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 1 2003
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 1 2003
Trichloroethylene MR 1 2003
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 1 2003
Tetrachloroethylene MR 1 2003
CHLOROBENZENE MR 1 2003
Styrene MR 1 2003
Arsenic MR 1 2003
Barium MR 1 2003
Cadmium MR 1 2003
Chromium MR 1 2003
Atrazine MR 1 2003
Mercury MR 1 2003
Antimony, Total MR 1 2003
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 1 2003
Fluoride MR 1 2003
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 1 2003
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 1 2003
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 1 2003
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 1 2003
Beryllium, Total MR 1 2003
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 1 2003
Nitrate MR 1 2004
Selenium MR 1 2003
Nickel MR 1 2003
Xylenes, Total MR 1 2003
Carbon tetrachloride MR 1 2003

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Sharon Springs, City Of has 51 recorded EPA violations, 57% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 43% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 51), and it ranks #23,605 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)

51 Around the middle fewer violations than 43% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Sharon Springs, City Of

EPA SDWIS lists 744 people served and 439 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

51 violations · 744 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints

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

4 peers

What to do with Sharon Springs, 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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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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