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City of Mulberry

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
411 people
Connections
249
Water source
Surface water bought from another system
Based in
Mulberry, KS
County
Crawford
Owner
Local government
Hardness
Hard
The ZIP code it serves

66756

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit, and 1 more is above the health goal. The worst: Haloacetic acids (HAA5), above the legal limit. 3 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2004 to 2025.

Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and nitrate: Kansas’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 21, 2020 to May 12, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the legal limit1

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Above the legal limit

62.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026, one sample: 23 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 62.5 ppb, in 2021, above EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 120 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 23 ppb. EPA recorded violations for haloacetic acids (HAA5) at this utility in 2021 and 2022. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 39.8 ppb, in 2018.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

1.5ppb

90th percentile, 2023 to 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.5 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 limits1

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

53.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026, one sample: 21 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 53.5 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 70 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 21 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 46.5 ppb, in 2018.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Fluoride
  • Nitrate

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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Hardness

Hard, 125 mg/L (7.3 grains per gallon), at its one sampling point, 2016 to 2025.

Hardness is calcium and magnesium. EPA sets no limit for it: it shows up as scale on fixtures and in water heaters, and as soap that won’t lather. USGS calls water above 60 mg/L moderately hard, above 120 hard and above 180 very hard.

Softeners compared at 7.3 grains per gallon, salt includedSoftener or salt-free conditioner?Kansas water hardness, utility by utility

Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)The running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageApril 1, 2022 to June 30, 20220.061 MG/LResolved
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)The running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJan. 1, 2022 to March 31, 20220.061 MG/LResolved
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)The running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageOct. 1, 2021 to Dec. 31, 20210.063 MG/LResolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 3 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and nitrate results here are Kansas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. City of Mulberry’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 Jan. 21, 2020 to May 12, 2026.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Pace Analytical Services, Inc - Frontenac

    Frontenac, KS · about 6 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (913) 599-5665

All 47 certified labs for Kansas

Sources

PWSID KS2003710. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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