Community Water System · PWSID KS2003725

Public Wholesale Wsd 11

Serves 1 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentArcadia, Kansas
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On record since 1999: 12 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 7 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-05-01.

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2Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 64% 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: 120002002 · Missed or late test: 12005201020152018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
17% over the limit · 28% treatment lapse · 158% missed or late test · 717% notice or report · 2

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×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2018-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0610 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2018-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0880 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.

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-05-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2021-05-01Chlorine dioxideMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2021-03-01Chlorine dioxideMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2021-01-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2021-01-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor Removalmeasured 0.9900 RATIOBack in compliance
  6. 2020-04-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2019-12-01Chlorine dioxideMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2018-05-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2018-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0610 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0880 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2002-01-01DBP Stage 1Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served1
Service connections13
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityArcadia
EPA ZIP on file66711

Areas served

  • Girard, Crawford County

Reading this record

Public Wholesale Wsd 11 is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 1 people in Arcadia, 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.