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Is Hays, KS tap water safe?

10 utilities serve Hays, 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

3 of the 10 utilities serving Hays have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Kansas’s records: Ellis Co RWD 1c, Sunset Valley MHP Hays KS, LLC and Hays Suburban Estates.

City of Hays, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 105 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from City of Hays is hard, 160 mg/L (9.4 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 Hays’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 Hays’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 Hays

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.

No lab Kansas certifies is within 75 miles of Hays on the state’s list. Some take samples by mail; the state’s page lists them all.

All 47 certified labs for Kansas

ZIP codes in Hays

Which ZIP codes are in Hays: 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.

Near Hays

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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