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City of Milford

What EPA’s and Kansas’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
400 people
Connections
206
Water source
Groundwater bought from another system
Based in
Milford, KS
County
Geary
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

66514

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. 5 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1996 to 2023.

Haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): Kansas’s own results, samples taken from Sept. 10, 2020 to Sept. 8, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

2.4ppb

90th percentile, 2021 to 2023

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 2.4 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

38ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025, one sample: 37 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 38 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 37 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 82.5 ppb, in 2014, and EPA recorded a violation in 2015.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

42ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025, one sample: 26 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 42 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 26 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 180 ppb, in 2013, and EPA recorded violations in 2012, 2015 and 2016.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageOct. 1, 2016 to Dec. 31, 20160.092 MG/LResolved
Groundwater RuleA significant problem found in a state inspection was not fixed on time.EPA: Failure To Address DeficiencySept. 16, 2016—Resolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJuly 1, 2016 to Sept. 30, 20160.12 MG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageApril 1, 2016 to June 30, 20160.14 MG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJan. 1, 2016 to March 31, 20160.17 MG/LResolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 2 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) results here are Kansas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. City of Milford’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Kansas’s results run from Sept. 10, 2020 to Sept. 8, 2025.

Testing your own tap

City of Milford’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Kansas certifies.

The 3 labs Kansas certifies closest to the area City of Milford serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Irwin Army Community Hospital-Water Laboratory-PH-EH

    Fort Riley, KS · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (785) 239-7516

  • Pace Analytical Services, Inc. - Salina

    Salina, KS · about 47 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (913) 599-5665

  • LandIntel Solutions, LLC

    Scandia, KS · about 65 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (785) 335-2054

All 47 certified labs for Kansas

Sources

PWSID KS2006109. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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