Community Water System · PWSID KS2000311

Anderson Co Rwd 1c

Serves 2,112 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentGarnett, Kansas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 6 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1993: 25 violations. 3 over the limit · 14 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-02.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

3Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
14Missed or late test3 open
8Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 86% of active water systems in Kansas. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1993 · Missed or late test: 119951999 · Notice or report: 12000 · Notice or report: 120002001 · Notice or report: 12003 · Notice or report: 120052010 · Missed or late test: 22010 · Missed or late test: 2201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Over the limit: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Over the limit: 22025 · Over the limit: 22025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
12% over the limit · 356% missed or late test · 1432% notice or report · 8

Across Kansas, 52% of violations are missed or late tests and 13% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2025-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0610 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2025-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0670 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2024-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0680 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 9 results on file · action level 15 ppb

21 ppb
9.9 ppb
6.7 ppb
4 ppb
3.9 ppb
2.1 ppb
1.8 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (6)

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 2023-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  4. 2022-10-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  5. 2022-06-25Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2025-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0610 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0670 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2024-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0680 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  7. 2023-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  8. 2022-10-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  9. 2022-06-25Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2021-02-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2021-02-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2020-12-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2019-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  14. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2019-08-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2019-08-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2016-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  18. 2010-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  19. 2010-07-02Dbp Stage 2Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  20. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2001-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2000-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,112
Service connections770
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityGarnett
EPA ZIP on file66032

Areas served

  • Mound City, Linn County

Reading this record

Anderson Co Rwd 1c is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 2,112 people in Garnett, Kansas. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.