Is Belvue, KS tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 2 utilities serving Belvue has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Kansas’s records: Pottawatomie Co RWD 4.
Pottawatomie Co RWD 4, which serves the most people here, has nothing above a health goal in EPA’s and Kansas’s records. That data covers what its report lists, not everything.
The water from Pottawatomie Co RWD 4 is hard, 130 mg/L (7.6 grains per gallon). How Kansas’s water compares.
A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down.
- Open report
Pottawatomie Co RWD 4
Kansas · serves 1,125 people · lists Belvue among the places it serves
Nothing in its records is above a health goal. Hardness: hard, 130 mg/L (7.6 grains per gallon).
1 health-based violation since 2016
- Open report
City of Belvue
Kansas · serves 190 people · lists Belvue among the places it serves
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 0.7 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Belvue
The 3 labs Kansas certifies closest to Belvue, 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 33 miles
Certified for bacteria
Johnson County Water Quality Laboratory
Olathe, KS · about 74 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper
Olathe Environmental Laboratory
Olathe, KS · about 74 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics
ZIP codes in Belvue
Which ZIP codes are in Belvue: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: Kansas Department of Health and Environment, drinking water labs, as listed in TNI LAMS; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.
Near Belvue
Other towns in Wabaunsee County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Pottawatomie Co RWD 4’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- Decide if you want a filter at allA filter for taste or chlorine is a preference, not a need. The standards say what each kind can do.NSF/ANSI standards, decoded
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water