Community Water System · PWSID KS2011312

City of Galva

Serves 870 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentGalva, 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: 15 violations. 4 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 7 missed or late tests · 3 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.

4Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
3Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 73% 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: 11995200020052010 · Notice or report: 120102015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 220152017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Over the limit: 12019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
27% over the limit · 47% treatment lapse · 147% missed or late test · 720% notice or report · 3

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×+Arsenic2020-01-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0110 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.1×)2019-04-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0110 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.1×)2019-01-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0110 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.1×)2018-10-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0110 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3.3 ppb
1.4 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 2020-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2020-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2019-05-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2019-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2019-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2018-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2017-10-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2017-07-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2017-04-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2015-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2015-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  15. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance

System details

Population served870
Service connections480
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityGalva
EPA ZIP on file67443

Areas served

  • Galva, Mcpherson County

Reading this record

City of Galva is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 870 people in Galva, 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.