Is Cottonwood Falls, KS tap water safe?
The short answer
Neither of the 2 utilities serving Cottonwood Falls 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 Cottonwood Falls, 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 City of Cottonwood Falls is very hard, 275 mg/L (16.1 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 Cottonwood Falls’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
City of Cottonwood Falls
Kansas · serves 821 people · under 100 in Cottonwood Falls
Nothing in its records is above a health goal. Hardness: very hard, 275 mg/L (16.1 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
- Open report
Public Wholesale WSD 26
Kansas · serves 1 person · lists Cottonwood Falls among the places it serves
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 1.5 ppb, above the health goal. Hardness: moderately hard, 82 mg/L (4.8 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Cottonwood Falls
The 3 labs Kansas certifies closest to Cottonwood Falls, 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 57 miles
Certified for bacteria
Meridian Analytical Laboratory - Wichita
Wichita, KS · about 61 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts
Pace Analytical Services, Inc. - Salina
Salina, KS · about 72 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate
ZIP codes in Cottonwood Falls
Which ZIP codes are in Cottonwood Falls: 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 Cottonwood Falls
Towns nearby with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read City of Cottonwood Falls’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