Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID KS2106304

Wheatland High School

Serves 125 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentGrainfield, KansasServes a school or daycare
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 1993: 17 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 13 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2023-10-01.

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
3Treatment lapse
13Missed or late test6 open
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 76% 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 · Missed or late test: 11995 · Treatment lapse: 119951996 · Treatment lapse: 120002005201020152019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
18% treatment lapse · 376% missed or late test · 136% notice or report · 1

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

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 14 results on file · action level 15 ppb

36.6 ppb
26 ppb
18 ppb
15 ppb
7.8 ppb
6 ppb
3.8 ppb
3.2 ppb
0.6 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (6)

  1. 2023-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2022-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 2022-01-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  4. 2021-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  5. 2020-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  6. 2020-03-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2023-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  5. 2022-08-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2022-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  7. 2022-01-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  8. 2021-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2021-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  10. 2020-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  11. 2020-03-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  12. 2019-07-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  13. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  14. 1996-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  15. 1995-01-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  16. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  17. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served125
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityGrainfield
EPA ZIP on file67737

Areas served

  • Grainfield, Gove County

Reading this record

Wheatland High School is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 125 people in Grainfield, 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.