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County drinking water records

Cherokee County, KS drinking water systems

16 community water systems serve Cherokee County, KS, reporting 20,472 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

1 of them (6%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 4 systems still have one unresolved.

7 rely mainly on groundwater and 9 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

14 systems filed a lead service line inventory listing 746 lead lines, 1,911 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 2,579 lines of unknown material.

1 more system is placed in Cherokee County, KS by the county its records name because it has no service area map that lines up with its own records, so it is listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
16
People served, sum of each system's own figure
20,472
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
1
Systems with one unresolved
4
Lead service lines in inventories
746

Water systems serving Cherokee County

16 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
City of Baxter Springs Baxter Springs 3,852 Surface water 9 0 2
City of Columbus Columbus 2,882 Purchased surface water 0 0 7
City of Galena Galena 2,743 Purchased surface water 0 0 737
Crawford Co RWD 5 Opolis and Pittsburg and land outside them 2,200 Groundwater 0 2 No inventory
Cherokee Co RWD 3 Hallowell and Columbus and land outside them 1,900 Purchased surface water 0 1 No inventory
Cherokee Co RWD 4 Scammon and land outside it 1,500 Groundwater 0 1 No inventory
Cherokee Co RWD 8 Lowell and Riverton and land outside them 1,235 Groundwater 0 0 No inventory
Cherokee Co RWD 2 Riverton and land outside it 943 Groundwater 0 0 No inventory
Cherokee Co RWD 9 Riverton 900 Purchased surface water 0 1 No inventory
City of Weir Weir 566 Purchased surface water 0 0 No inventory
Cherokee Co RWD 1 Crestline and land outside it 520 Groundwater 0 0 No inventory
Cherokee Co RWD 5 McCune and land outside it 480 Purchased surface water 0 0 No inventory
City of Scammon Scammon 370 Groundwater 0 0 No inventory
Cherokee Co RWD 7 Outside cities and towns 158 Purchased surface water 0 0 No inventory
City of West Mineral West Mineral 150 Purchased surface water 0 0 No inventory
City of Roseland Roseland 73 Purchased groundwater 0 0 No inventory

Systems placed by county record in Cherokee County

1 system

The service area map EPA has for this system does not line up with its own records. It is placed by the county its records name (the counties EPA lists it serving, or the county coded in its ID where EPA lists none), and without a map it is not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Public Wholesale WSD 19 County on record 1 Surface water 3 6 No inventory

Cities and towns in Cherokee County

11 places

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Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations