Community Water System · PWSID KS2002123

Public Wholesale Wsd 19

Serves 1 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentColumbus, Kansas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 6 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 2014: 48 violations. 5 over the limit · 37 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-01.

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

5Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
37Missed or late test1 open
6Notice or report5 open

More violations on record than 95% 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

200520102014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 420152016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 62017 · Missed or late test: 62017 · Missed or late test: 62017 · Missed or late test: 62017 · Missed or late test: 62017 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Over the limit: 12021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Notice or report: 42021 · Notice or report: 42021 · Notice or report: 42021 · Notice or report: 42022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32023 · 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.
10% over the limit · 577% missed or late test · 3713% notice or report · 6

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×+Chlorite2021-10-01 · Chlorite: measured 1.18 MG/L vs limit 1.00 MG/L (1.2×)2016-08-01 · Chlorite: measured 1.54 MG/L vs limit 1.00 MG/L (1.5×)2016-07-01 · Chlorite: measured 1.84 MG/L vs limit 1.00 MG/L (1.8×)2016-06-01 · Chlorite: measured 1.30 MG/L vs limit 1.00 MG/L (1.3×)2016-05-01 · Chlorite: measured 1.79 MG/L vs limit 1.00 MG/L (1.8×)
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.

Open now (6)

  1. 2021-08-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2021-02-14Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2020-01-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2017-10-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2022-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-11-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2021-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  9. 2021-10-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2021-10-01ChloriteMCL, Averagemeasured 1.18 MG/L · limit 1.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2021-08-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  12. 2021-02-14Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  13. 2020-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  14. 2020-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  15. 2020-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  16. 2020-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  17. 2020-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  18. 2020-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  19. 2020-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  20. 2020-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  21. 2020-01-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  22. 2019-12-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2019-11-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2019-10-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2019-07-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
Show the other 21 entries
  1. 2018-01-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2017-10-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Open
  3. 2017-10-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2017-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2017-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2017-04-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2017-01-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2016-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2016-08-01ChloriteMCL, Averagemeasured 1.54 MG/L · limit 1.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2016-07-01ChloriteMCL, Averagemeasured 1.84 MG/L · limit 1.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2016-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2016-06-01ChloriteMCL, Averagemeasured 1.30 MG/L · limit 1.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2016-05-01ChloriteMCL, Averagemeasured 1.79 MG/L · limit 1.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2016-04-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2016-01-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2015-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2015-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2015-04-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2015-01-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2014-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2014-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served1
Service connections4
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityColumbus
EPA ZIP on file66725

Areas served

  • Columbus, Cherokee County

Reading this record

Public Wholesale Wsd 19 is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 1 people in Columbus, 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.