Community Water System · PWSID KS2015905

City of Bushton

Serves 199 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentBushton, Kansas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 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 2016: 31 violations. 14 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 7 missed or late tests · 9 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.

14Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test1 open
9Notice or report1 open

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

2005201020152016 · Over the limit: 12017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32019 · Over the limit: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Over the limit: 12022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
45% over the limit · 143% treatment lapse · 123% missed or late test · 729% notice or report · 9

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×+Combined Radium (-226 and...2023-01-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 6.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (1.2×)2022-10-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 6.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (1.2×)2022-07-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 6.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (1.2×)2022-04-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 6.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (1.2×)2022-01-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 6.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (1.2×)2021-10-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 6.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (1.2×)2019-01-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 6.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (1.2×)2018-04-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 6.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (1.2×)2018-01-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 6.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (1.2×)2017-10-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 6.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (1.2×)2017-07-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 7.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (1.4×)2017-04-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 7.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (1.4×)2017-01-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 7.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (1.4×)2016-10-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 6.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/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

3.3 ppb
2.9 ppb
2.3 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2025-06-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2024-09-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2023-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  10. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2023-03-19Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  12. 2023-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 6.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  13. 2022-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  14. 2022-10-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 6.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  15. 2022-07-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 6.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  16. 2022-04-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 6.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2022-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 6.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  18. 2021-10-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 6.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  19. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  20. 2019-07-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  21. 2019-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 6.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  22. 2018-08-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2018-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2018-04-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 6.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  25. 2018-03-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 6 entries
  1. 2018-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 6.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  2. 2017-10-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 6.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  3. 2017-07-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 7.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  4. 2017-04-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 7.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  5. 2017-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 7.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  6. 2016-10-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 6.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served199
Service connections130
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBushton
EPA ZIP on file67427

Areas served

  • Bushton, Rice County

Reading this record

City of Bushton is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 199 people in Bushton, 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.