Community Water System · PWSID KS2015709

City of Republic

Serves 83 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentRepublic, Kansas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 4 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 1993: 55 violations. 21 over the limit · 16 missed or late tests · 18 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

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

21Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
16Missed or late test3 open
18Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 96% 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: 12000200520102014 · Over the limit: 12015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 320152016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42019 · Over the limit: 42019 · Over the limit: 42019 · Over the limit: 42019 · Over the limit: 42019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 32020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
38% over the limit · 2129% missed or late test · 1633% notice or report · 18

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×+Nitrate2020-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2019-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2019-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2019-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2019-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2018-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2018-07-01 · 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 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2017-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2017-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2017-04-01 · 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×)2016-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2016-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2016-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2016-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2015-10-01 · 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×)2015-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2014-01-01 · 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 10 results on file · action level 15 ppb

17 ppb
4.9 ppb
4.9 ppb
4.6 ppb
2.9 ppb
2.9 ppb
2.9 ppb
1.3 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

1.7 mg/L
1.7 mg/L
1.6 mg/L

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  4. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2025-03-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  7. 2024-12-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-11-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  12. 2023-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  13. 2023-08-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  14. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  16. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  18. 2020-03-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2020-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2019-10-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2019-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  22. 2019-07-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  23. 2019-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2019-05-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2019-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
Show the other 29 entries
  1. 2019-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2018-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2018-08-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2018-07-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2018-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2018-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2018-02-12Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2018-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2017-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2017-08-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2017-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2017-06-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2017-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2017-03-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2017-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2016-11-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2016-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2016-08-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2016-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2016-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2016-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  22. 2015-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2015-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2015-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  25. 2014-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  26. 2000-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  27. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  28. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  29. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served83
Service connections73
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityRepublic
EPA ZIP on file66964

Areas served

  • Republic, Republic County

Reading this record

City of Republic is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 83 people in Republic, 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.