Community Water System · PWSID KS2013314

Neosho Co Rwd 2

Serves 1,210 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentStark, 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 1999: 24 violations. 11 over the limit · 8 missed or late tests · 5 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.

11Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test
5Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 85% 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

1999 · Notice or report: 1200020052007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Missed or late test: 12010 · Missed or late test: 120102014 · Over the limit: 22014 · Over the limit: 22015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 420152016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 320202025 · 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.
46% over the limit · 1133% missed or late test · 821% notice or report · 5

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)2017-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0880 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2017-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0900 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2016-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0850 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0900 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2016-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0630 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2015-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0630 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2015-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0790 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.3×)2015-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0860 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.4×)2015-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0910 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.5×)2014-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 98.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.6×)2014-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0920 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.5×)
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

2.8 ppb
2.5 ppb
2.3 ppb
2.2 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2007-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2020-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2020-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2019-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  7. 2017-06-16Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0880 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0900 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2016-12-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0850 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0900 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0630 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0630 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2015-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0790 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2015-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0860 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2015-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0910 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2014-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 98.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2014-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0920 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2010-07-02Dbp Stage 2Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  21. 2008-04-02Dbp Stage 2Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  22. 2007-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  23. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,210
Service connections537
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityStark
EPA ZIP on file66775

Areas served

  • Stark, Neosho County

Reading this record

Neosho Co Rwd 2 is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 1,210 people in Stark, 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.