Transient Non-Community · PWSID MO5212752

Orleans Trail Restaurant

Serves 100 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateHalstead, Kansas
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform 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 2013: 25 violations. 2 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 16 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-31.

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

2Over the limit
2Treatment lapse1 open
16Missed or late test
5Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 86% 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

200520102013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Over the limit: 22015 · Over the limit: 22015 · Notice or report: 120152019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 420202021 · 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: 62022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% over the limit · 28% treatment lapse · 264% missed or late test · 1620% notice or report · 5

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

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

Open now (3)

  1. 2025-07-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-03-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2020-11-09Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-03-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2023-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2022-02-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2021-11-16Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  8. 2021-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2021-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2020-11-09Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  15. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2020-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2020-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2020-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2015-09-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2015-08-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  23. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  24. 2014-08-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  25. 2013-08-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served100
Service connections14
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityHalstead
EPA ZIP on file67056-0000

Areas served

  • Cedar County

Reading this record

Orleans Trail Restaurant is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 100 people in Halstead, 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.