Community Water System · PWSID KS2020508

City of Altoona

Serves 349 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentAltoona, Kansas
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On record since 2006: 32 violations. 12 missed or late tests · 20 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-11-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
12Missed or late test
20Notice or report

More violations on record than 91% 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 22006 · Notice or report: 22007 · Notice or report: 52007 · Notice or report: 52007 · Notice or report: 52007 · Notice or report: 52007 · Notice or report: 52008 · Notice or report: 62008 · Notice or report: 62008 · Notice or report: 62008 · Notice or report: 62008 · Notice or report: 62008 · Notice or report: 62010 · Missed or late test: 12010 · Notice or report: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 42020 · Notice or report: 42020 · Notice or report: 42020 · Notice or report: 420202024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
38% missed or late test · 1263% notice or report · 20

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

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

2.5 ppb
0.7 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-11-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  4. 2020-12-24Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2020-09-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2020-07-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2019-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2018-08-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2018-08-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-08-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2017-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  13. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2016-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2016-01-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  17. 2010-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2008-10-25Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2008-05-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2008-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2008-02-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2007-08-23Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2007-05-03Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2007-02-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 1 entries
  1. 2006-11-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served349
Service connections235
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityAltoona
EPA ZIP on file66710-0147

Areas served

  • Altoona, Wilson County

Reading this record

City of Altoona is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 349 people in Altoona, 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.