Finney Co Rwd 1, KS Water Quality
Is Finney Co Rwd 1's water safe to drink?
Finney Co Rwd 1 has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,200 people get their water from it, across 601 connections.
Finney Co Rwd 1's record against the rest of the country
Finney Co Rwd 1 has 9 violations on record in total, 8 of them health-based - ranking it 2,521th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 80th percentile nationally.
How Finney Co Rwd 1 compares within KS
KS's 155 covered systems average 8.7 health-based violations each; Finney Co Rwd 1 carries 8, not more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Finney Co Rwd 1 is from 2018-06-12 (health-based: 2009-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Finney Co Rwd 1'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:
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228); Combined Uranium
The most severe category on record is radionuclides, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what Finney Co Rwd 1 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 Finney Co Rwd 1's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,521th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.