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Is Bonner Springs, KS tap water safe?

3 utilities serve Bonner Springs, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Kansas’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

1 of the 3 utilities serving Bonner Springs has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Kansas’s records: City of Bonner Springs.

City of Bonner Springs, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the action level, 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Copper at 1.5 ppm, above the action level.

The water from City of Bonner Springs is moderately hard to very hard depending on the source, 120 to 470 mg/L (7 to 27.5 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. They are listed by how many people each serves in Bonner Springs’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in City of Bonner Springs’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Bonner Springs

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Kansas certifies.

The 3 labs Kansas certifies closest to Bonner Springs, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Water District No 1 of Johnson County-WaterOne

    Kansas City, KS · about 8 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (913) 895-5800

  • Eurofins Kansas City

    Lenexa, KS · about 10 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (319) 595-2009

  • Microbac Laboratories, Inc - Kansas

    Lenexa, KS · about 10 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (641) 792-8451

All 47 certified labs for Kansas

ZIP codes in Bonner Springs

Which ZIP codes are in Bonner Springs: 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 Bonner Springs

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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