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)
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.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Sharon Springs, City Of
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