Community Water System · PWSID KS2016705

Russell Co Rwd 4

Serves 90 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentGorham, 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 1993: 22 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 9 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-10.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
4Treatment lapse1 open
9Missed or late test2 open
9Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 83% 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: 11994 · Treatment lapse: 11994 · Missed or late test: 119951996 · Treatment lapse: 11997 · Treatment lapse: 12000 · Notice or report: 120002001 · Notice or report: 12002 · Notice or report: 12003 · Notice or report: 12004 · Notice or report: 120052009 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 1201520202023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
18% treatment lapse · 441% missed or late test · 941% notice or report · 9

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.

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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4.5 ppb
4.5 ppb
3.9 ppb
3.7 ppb
3.7 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-04-10E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  3. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2024-08-03Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-10E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  3. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2024-08-03Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  5. 2024-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2024-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2014-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2012-02-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2009-03-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2002-10-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2001-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2000-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 1997-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  19. 1996-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationBack in compliance
  20. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  21. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  22. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served90
Service connections65
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityGorham
EPA ZIP on file67640

Areas served

  • Russell, Russell County

Reading this record

Russell Co Rwd 4 is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 90 people in Gorham, 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.