Community Water System · PWS WA5342650
Kittitas City Of
Operator location Kittitas, Washington - lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations) with 18 EPA violations; groundwater source; 2,247 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,247
- People served (this PWS)
- 18
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Kittitas City Of standing, low SDWIS violation third
18 EPA SDWIS violations on record - lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #12,714 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Kittitas City Of is in the lower third by violation count (18; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is mid-pack at 2,247 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,714 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #328 of 766
- Population · WA
- 18
- Total EPA violations on record
- 6%
- 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
- 656
- County
- Kittitas
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 1
- Monitoring Violations
- 13
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2017 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 1992 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 2020 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 1 | 1996 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 1 | 2017 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1979 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Kittitas City Of has 18 recorded EPA violations, 29% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 70% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 18), and it ranks #12,714 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)
18 Lower than most fewer violations than 70% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Kittitas City Of
18 violations on record for WA5342650; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Washington State Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
18 violations · 2,247 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
- Cheyenne Arapaho Concho EPA Region 6 — Tribal Water Systems 18violations
- Assiniboine & Sioux Rural Water System EPA Region 8 — Tribal Water Systems 18violations
- Poplar, City Of EPA Region 8 — Tribal Water Systems 18violations
- Torreon-Ojo Encino East - NTUA EPA Region 9 — Tribal Water Systems 18violations
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Kittitas City Of
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