Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS KS2111513
Morning Star Ranch, LLC
Operator location Florence, Kansas - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 35 people served; 88 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 35
- People served (this PWS)
- 88
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 12
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Morning Star Ranch, LLC standing, high SDWIS violation third
35 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Morning Star Ranch, LLC sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (88), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (35; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 88
- Total EPA violations on record
- 14%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 35
- 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
- Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 10
- County
- Marion
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 12
- Monitoring Violations
- 59
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 55 | 2014 |
| Public Notice | Other | 16 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 12 | 2008 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | Other | 1 | 2003 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Morning Star Ranch, LLC has 88 recorded EPA violations, 70% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 29% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (12 of 88), 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)
88 Around the middle fewer violations than 29% 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 Morning Star Ranch, LLC
EPA SDWIS lists 35 people served and 10 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
88 violations · 35 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 Morning Star Ranch, LLC
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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