Community Water System · PWSID 070000008

Iowa Tribe of Ks & Ne

Serves 192 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Native AmericanWhite Cloud, Kansas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2007: 58 violations. 2 over the limit · 9 treatment lapses · 35 missed or late tests · 12 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-06-01.

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

2Over the limit
9Treatment lapse
35Missed or late test
12Notice 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

20052007 · Missed or late test: 32007 · Missed or late test: 32007 · Missed or late test: 32010 · Over the limit: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 320202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 52022 · Treatment lapse: 52022 · Treatment lapse: 52022 · Treatment lapse: 52022 · Treatment lapse: 52022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% over the limit · 216% treatment lapse · 960% missed or late test · 3521% notice or report · 12

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×+Nitrate-Nitrite2023-07-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 10.60 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

3.2 ppb
3.2 ppb
1.6 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2022-12-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-06-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2025-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2025-05-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2024-11-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2024-08-23Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  8. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2024-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2024-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2024-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2023-12-20Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2023-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2023-08-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2023-08-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2023-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2023-07-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Single Samplemeasured 10.60 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2022-12-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  20. 2022-10-17Groundwater Rule ×5Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  21. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2022-02-12Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2022-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2021-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 29 entries
  1. 2021-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2021-08-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2021-08-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2021-06-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2021-02-17Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  6. 2021-01-01Residual ChlorineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2021-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2020-11-15Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2020-10-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2020-06-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2020-03-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2020-02-01Residual ChlorineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2020-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2020-01-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  15. 2019-09-05Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  16. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2019-05-13Groundwater RuleNotification, StateBack in compliance
  19. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2017-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  21. 2017-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  22. 2016-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  23. 2015-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  25. 2010-04-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  26. 2010-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  27. 2007-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  28. 2007-05-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  29. 2007-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served192
Service connections103
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerNative American
StatusActive
CityWhite Cloud
EPA ZIP on file66094

Areas served

    Reading this record

    Iowa Tribe of Ks & Ne is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 192 people in White Cloud, 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.