Community Water System · PWS KS2020511
Buffalo, City Of
Operator location Buffalo, Kansas - 69% of 181 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 218 served per SDWIS.
- 218
- People served (this PWS)
- 181
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 125
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Buffalo, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
69% of 181 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 69% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Buffalo, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (181), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (218; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 69% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 181
- Total EPA violations on record
- 69%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 218
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
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
- 121
- County
- Wilson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 104
- Monitoring Violations
- 47
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 21
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 46 | 2009 |
| TTHM | MCL | 44 | 2018 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 21 | 2003 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 18 | 2006 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 14 | 2012 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 13 | 2014 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2023 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2000 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Buffalo, City Of has 181 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 69% of this system's own violations are health-based (125 of 181), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
181 Higher than most more violations than 84% 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 Buffalo, City Of
125 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2020511.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
181 violations · 218 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.
What to do with Buffalo, City Of
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