DrinkingWaterCheck

Is HARVEY CO RWD 1's water safe to drink?

HARVEY 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. 3,000 people get their water from it, across 1,109 connections.

HARVEY CO RWD 1's record against the rest of the country

HARVEY CO RWD 1 has 7 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,498th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 34th percentile nationally.

How HARVEY CO RWD 1 compares within KS

KS's 152 covered systems average 8.7 health-based violations each; HARVEY CO RWD 1 carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for HARVEY CO RWD 1 is from 2003-01-04 (health-based: 2003-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/15/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

HARVEY 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:

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

HARVEY CO RWD 1'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 HARVEY CO RWD 1's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,498th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.