KEARNEY, CITY OF: EPA violation history, explained
KEARNEY, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 34,000 people through 10,974 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
11 total violations and 9 health-based ones put KEARNEY, CITY OF at the 83th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,257 of 12,903.
How KEARNEY, CITY OF compares within NE
NE's 64 covered systems average 8.9 health-based violations each; KEARNEY, CITY OF carries 9, more than typical for the state. 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 KEARNEY, CITY OF is from 2016-01-07 (health-based: 2016-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
KEARNEY, 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)
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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
This is what KEARNEY, CITY OF 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 KEARNEY, CITY OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,257th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.