Douglas Co Rwd 3, KS Water Quality
Douglas Co Rwd 3: EPA violation history, explained
Douglas Co Rwd 3 has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,663 people get their water from it, across 1,909 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, Douglas Co Rwd 3 ranks 4,446th by violation burden (66th percentile) - 9 violations total, 4 health-based.
How Douglas Co Rwd 3 compares within KS
Douglas Co Rwd 3's 4 health-based violations sit within the KS average of 8.7, across 155 systems statewide. 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 Douglas Co Rwd 3 is from 2022-06-12 (health-based: 2016-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Douglas Co Rwd 3'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:
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Carbon, Total
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Tthm
The most severe category on record is synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / vocs, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what Douglas Co Rwd 3 reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and Douglas Co Rwd 3's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,446th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.