Community Water System · PWS ND5100515
Kenmare City Of
Operator location Kenmare, North Dakota - 42% of 57 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 961 served per SDWIS.
- 961
- People served (this PWS)
- 57
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 24
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Kenmare City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
42% of 57 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 42% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #20,227 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Kenmare City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (57), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (961; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 42% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #20,227 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #88 of 131
- Population · ND
- 57
- Total EPA violations on record
- 42%
- 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
- 660
- County
- Ward
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 24
- Monitoring Violations
- 20
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 24 | 2009 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 8 | 2022 |
| Chloramine | MR | 8 | 2022 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2008 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 1 | 2010 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 1 | 2010 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Kenmare City Of has 57 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 42% of this system's own violations are health-based (24 of 57), and it ranks #20,227 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)
57 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% 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 Kenmare City Of
24 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ND5100515.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
57 violations · 961 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 Kenmare City Of
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in North Dakota compares on the same EPA violation measures. North Dakota systems
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