Community Water System · PWSID KS2019118

City of Conway Springs

Serves 1,106 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentConway Springs, Kansas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 1994: 63 violations. 20 over the limit · 3 treatment lapses · 13 missed or late tests · 27 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-11-02.

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

20Over the limit
3Treatment lapse
13Missed or late test1 open
27Notice or report

More violations on record than 97% 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 · Treatment lapse: 11994 · Missed or late test: 11995 · Missed or late test: 119951996 · Treatment lapse: 11999 · Notice or report: 12000 · Notice or report: 120002001 · Treatment lapse: 12001 · Notice or report: 120052007 · Notice or report: 22007 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Over the limit: 12011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Over the limit: 22012 · Over the limit: 22012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Over the limit: 22014 · Over the limit: 22014 · Notice or report: 32014 · Notice or report: 32014 · Notice or report: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Notice or report: 32015 · Notice or report: 32015 · Notice or report: 320152016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Over the limit: 32018 · Over the limit: 32018 · Over the limit: 32018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32019 · Over the limit: 12019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
32% over the limit · 205% treatment lapse · 321% missed or late test · 1343% notice or report · 27

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×+Nitrate2019-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2018-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2018-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2018-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2017-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2017-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2016-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2016-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2016-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2015-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2015-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2015-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2014-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2014-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2013-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2013-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2013-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2012-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2012-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2011-07-01 · 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 8 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.2 ppb
2 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.3 ppb
1.1 ppb
1 ppb
0.6 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-11-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2023-10-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2021-08-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2021-08-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2019-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2019-02-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2019-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2018-12-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2018-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2018-07-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2018-05-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2018-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  16. 2018-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2018-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2018-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2017-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  20. 2017-08-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2017-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  22. 2017-03-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2017-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2016-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  25. 2016-07-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 38 entries
  1. 2016-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2016-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2016-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2015-09-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2015-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2015-05-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2015-04-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2015-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2015-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2014-10-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2014-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2014-06-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2014-05-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2014-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2013-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2013-09-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2013-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2013-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  19. 2013-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2012-07-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2012-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  22. 2012-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2011-09-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2011-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  25. 2010-05-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  26. 2009-11-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  27. 2008-12-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  28. 2008-06-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  29. 2007-12-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  30. 2007-06-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  31. 2001-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  32. 2001-07-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationBack in compliance
  33. 2000-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  34. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  35. 1996-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  36. 1995-06-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  37. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  38. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,106
Service connections513
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityConway Springs
EPA ZIP on file67031-0187

Areas served

  • Conway Springs, Sumner County

Reading this record

City of Conway Springs is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,106 people in Conway Springs, 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.