Community Water System · PWSID KS2000907

Barton Co Rwd 2

Serves 368 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentGreat Bend, Kansas
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On record since 1994: 25 violations. 5 over the limit · 8 missed or late tests · 12 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-01-01.

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

5Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test
12Notice or report

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

1994 · Missed or late test: 119951999 · Notice or report: 12000 · Notice or report: 1200020052007 · Notice or report: 120102013 · Notice or report: 22013 · Notice or report: 22015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Over the limit: 12022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Over the limit: 22023 · Over the limit: 22023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Over the limit: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
20% over the limit · 532% missed or late test · 848% notice or report · 12

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×+Nitrate2024-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2023-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2023-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2022-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2021-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)
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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

13.1 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2024-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2023-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2023-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2023-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2022-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  8. 2022-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2020-05-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2019-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2018-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  14. 2018-09-13E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2018-08-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2018-07-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2015-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2015-02-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2013-10-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2013-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  23. 2000-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served368
Service connections141
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityGreat Bend
EPA ZIP on file67530

Areas served

  • Great Bend, Barton County

Reading this record

Barton Co Rwd 2 is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 368 people in Great Bend, 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.