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County drinking water records

Rice County, KS drinking water systems

8 community water systems serve Rice County, KS, reporting 8,153 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

3 of them had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 3 systems still have one unresolved.

8 rely mainly on groundwater, counting water bought from other systems.

7 systems filed a lead service line inventory listing 1 lead line, 78 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 207 lines of unknown material.

Community water systems
8
People served, sum of each system's own figure
8,153
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
3
Systems with one unresolved
3
Lead service lines in inventories
1

Water systems serving Rice County

8 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 Lyons Lyons 3,556 Groundwater 1 2 No inventory
City of Sterling Sterling 2,318 Groundwater 0 0 No inventory
Rice Co RWD 1 Little River and land outside it 900 Purchased groundwater 0 0 No inventory
City of Little River Little River 474 Groundwater 0 0 No inventory
City of Chase Chase 390 Groundwater 0 0 No inventory
City of Geneseo Geneseo 231 Groundwater 3 1 No inventory
City of Bushton Bushton 199 Groundwater 15 2 1
City of Raymond Raymond 85 Groundwater 0 0 No inventory

Cities and towns in Rice County

7 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