What's in AUGUSTA, CITY OF's water?
AUGUSTA, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 9,267 people get their water from it, across 3,581 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
40 total violations and 11 health-based ones put AUGUSTA, CITY OF at the 86th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,747 of 12,903.
How AUGUSTA, CITY OF compares within KS
Among the 152 KS systems in this dataset, the average is 8.7 health-based violations - AUGUSTA, CITY OF's 11 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for AUGUSTA, CITY OF is from 2010-01-02 (health-based: 2007-01-12). Last reported to EPA: 05/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
AUGUSTA, CITY OF's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR); Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: CARBON, TOTAL
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
AUGUSTA, CITY OF's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and AUGUSTA, CITY OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,747th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.