Community Water System · PWSID KS2016702

City of Lucas

Serves 337 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentLucas, Kansas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 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 2012: 14 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 6 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-03-01.

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

2Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test
5Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 70% 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

200520102012 · Notice or report: 22012 · Notice or report: 220152019 · Over the limit: 12020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · 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.
14% over the limit · 27% treatment lapse · 143% missed or late test · 636% notice or report · 5

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×+Nitrate2020-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2019-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 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

4.9 ppb
3.8 ppb
2.9 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2023-11-22Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2021-03-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2024-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2023-11-22Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2022-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2021-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2021-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2021-03-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  9. 2020-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2020-05-31Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  11. 2019-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2012-10-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2012-06-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served337
Service connections332
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityLucas
EPA ZIP on file67648

Areas served

  • Lucas, Russell County

Reading this record

City of Lucas is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 337 people in Lucas, 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.