Community Water System · PWSID KS2005530

Hillcrest Courts

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateGarden City, Kansas
4 open treatment violations.

Open for: Groundwater Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 1994: 39 violations. 5 treatment lapses · 14 missed or late tests · 20 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-03-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
5Treatment lapse4 open
14Missed or late test1 open
20Notice or report7 open

More violations on record than 93% 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 · Missed or late test: 119952000200520102011 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 32020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 42021 · Treatment lapse: 42021 · Treatment lapse: 42021 · Treatment lapse: 42021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
13% treatment lapse · 536% missed or late test · 1451% notice or report · 20

Across Kansas, 52% of violations are missed or late tests and 13% are water over a limit.

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 8 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3.4 ppb
1.3 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (12)

  1. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  3. 2022-01-07Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2021-09-29Groundwater Rule ×4Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  5. 2019-07-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  6. 2019-05-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-03-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  4. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  5. 2023-12-28Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2022-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2022-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2022-01-07Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  9. 2021-12-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  10. 2021-09-29Groundwater Rule ×4Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  11. 2020-12-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  12. 2019-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  13. 2019-07-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  14. 2019-05-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  15. 2019-04-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2018-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  17. 2018-09-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2018-07-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  19. 2018-06-07Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  20. 2018-03-09Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  21. 2018-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2017-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  23. 2017-07-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  24. 2017-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  25. 2016-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
Show the other 7 entries
  1. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2014-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2014-03-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2011-02-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections11
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityGarden City
EPA ZIP on file67846

Areas served

  • Garden City, Finney County

Reading this record

Hillcrest Courts is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Garden City, 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.