Community Water System · PWSID KS2003710

City of Mulberry

Serves 411 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentMulberry, Kansas
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On record since 1993: 14 violations. 3 over the limit · 6 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-04-01.

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

3Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test
5Notice or report

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

1993 · Missed or late test: 11994 · Missed or late test: 119951999 · Notice or report: 12000 · Notice or report: 120002002 · Notice or report: 12003 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12010 · Missed or late test: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Over the limit: 12022 · Over the limit: 22022 · Over the limit: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
21% over the limit · 343% 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×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2022-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0610 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2022-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0610 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2021-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0630 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.5 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0610 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2022-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0610 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2021-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0630 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2017-11-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2017-11-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2016-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  7. 2010-07-02Dbp Stage 2Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  8. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  9. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2000-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  14. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served411
Service connections249
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityMulberry
EPA ZIP on file66756-0187

Areas served

  • Mulberry, Crawford County

Reading this record

City of Mulberry is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 411 people in Mulberry, 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.