Community Water System · PWSID KS2013312

City of Thayer

Serves 433 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentThayer, Kansas
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On record since 1993: 33 violations. 2 over the limit · 8 missed or late tests · 23 notices or reports. Most recent began 2019-12-30.

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

2Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test
23Notice or report

More violations on record than 92% 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: 119951999 · Missed or late test: 11999 · Notice or report: 12000 · Notice or report: 120002001 · Notice or report: 12003 · Missed or late test: 12004 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Missed or late test: 12006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 42008 · Notice or report: 42008 · Notice or report: 42008 · Notice or report: 42009 · Notice or report: 102009 · Notice or report: 102009 · Notice or report: 102009 · Notice or report: 102009 · Notice or report: 102009 · Notice or report: 102009 · Notice or report: 102009 · Notice or report: 102009 · Notice or report: 102009 · Notice or report: 1020102015 · Notice or report: 120152017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% over the limit · 224% missed or late test · 870% notice or report · 23

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×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2017-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2017-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0830 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)
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
0.7 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2019-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2018-03-29Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  3. 2018-03-29Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  4. 2017-12-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2017-07-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2017-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0830 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2015-02-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2009-12-12Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2009-04-28Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2009-02-28Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2009-01-03Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2008-09-12Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2008-05-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2008-02-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2006-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2004-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  21. 2003-06-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  22. 2001-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2000-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 1999-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
Show the other 1 entries
  1. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served433
Service connections231
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityThayer
EPA ZIP on file66776

Areas served

  • Thayer, Neosho County

Reading this record

City of Thayer is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 433 people in Thayer, 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.