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Is Dodge City, KS tap water safe?

City of Dodge City serves Dodge City, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Kansas’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

City of Dodge City serves Dodge City. In EPA’s and Kansas’s records it has 1 result above the legal limit, 1 result above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029, 2 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Nitrate at 11 ppm, above the legal limit.

The water from City of Dodge City is very hard, typically 310 mg/L (18.1 grains per gallon). How Kansas’s water compares.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in City of Dodge City’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Dodge City

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 lab Kansas certifies closest to Dodge City, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Servi-Tech, Inc

    Dodge City, KS · under a mile

    Certified for bacteria

    (620) 227-7123

All 47 certified labs for Kansas

ZIP codes in Dodge City

Which ZIP codes are in Dodge City: 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 Dodge City

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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