Community Water System · PWSID KS2012104

Miami Co Rwd 3

Serves 2,435 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentOsawatomie, 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 1993: 41 violations. 16 over the limit · 14 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-01-01.

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

16Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
14Missed or late test1 open
11Notice or report

More violations on record than 94% 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 · Notice or report: 1200020052008 · Missed or late test: 12010 · Missed or late test: 120102012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 12015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Over the limit: 62016 · Over the limit: 62016 · Over the limit: 62016 · Over the limit: 62016 · Over the limit: 62016 · Over the limit: 62016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
39% over the limit · 1634% missed or late test · 1427% notice or report · 11

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)Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2019-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0880 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2019-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1060 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.3×)2018-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0920 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2018-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0880 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2017-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0840 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2017-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0610 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2017-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1230 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.5×)2016-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0610 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2016-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1240 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.6×)2016-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0710 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1260 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.6×)2016-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1190 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.5×)2016-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0940 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2015-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0895 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2015-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0620 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2015-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0622 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4.2 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.3 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2023-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2023-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2021-04-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2020-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2019-09-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2019-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0880 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2019-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2019-01-23Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  11. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1060 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0920 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2018-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0880 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2017-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  17. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0840 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0610 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1230 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2016-11-17Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0610 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  22. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1240 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2016-07-01Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0710 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  25. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1260 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
Show the other 14 entries
  1. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1190 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0940 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0895 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0620 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2015-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2015-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0622 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2015-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2015-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2013-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2012-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2010-07-02Dbp Stage 2Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  12. 2008-04-02Dbp Stage 2Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  13. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,435
Service connections1,005
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityOsawatomie
EPA ZIP on file66064

Areas served

  • Osawatomie, Miami County

Reading this record

Miami Co Rwd 3 is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 2,435 people in Osawatomie, 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.