Community Water System · PWS SD4600182
Kennebec
Operator location Kennebec, South Dakota - 51% of 79 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 265 served per SDWIS.
- 265
- People served (this PWS)
- 79
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 40
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Kennebec standing, high SDWIS violation third
51% of 79 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 51% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Kennebec sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (79), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (265; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 51% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 79
- Total EPA violations on record
- 51%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 265
- 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
- 135
- County
- Lyman
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 40
- Monitoring Violations
- 33
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 40 | 1991 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 7 | 2005 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Nickel | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | Other | 1 | 1997 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1976 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Kennebec has 79 recorded EPA violations, 68% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 32% carry more. 51% of this system's own violations are health-based (40 of 79), 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)
79 Around the middle fewer violations than 32% 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 Kennebec
40 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for SD4600182.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
79 violations · 265 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 Kennebec
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in South Dakota compares on the same EPA violation measures. South Dakota systems
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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.