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Russell Co RWD 3

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
1,355 people
Connections
532
Water source
Groundwater bought from another system
Based in
Susank, KS
County
Russell
Owner
Local government
The 4 ZIP codes it serves

67525, 67564, 67565, 67665

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2000 to 2024.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Kansas’s own results, samples taken from Sept. 14, 2020 to Sept. 15, 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

3.4ppb

90th percentile, 2022 to 2024

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 3.4 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

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

55ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025, one sample: 38 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 55 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 38 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 68 ppb, in 2018.

What handles it

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

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

25ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025, one sample: 16 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 25 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 16 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 18 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

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.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 4 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are Kansas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Russell Co RWD 3’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. 14, 2020 to Sept. 15, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Russell Co RWD 3’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 Russell Co RWD 3 serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Pace Analytical Services, Inc. - Salina

    Salina, KS · about 66 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (913) 599-5665

All 47 certified labs for Kansas

Sources

PWSID KS2016704. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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