Cherokee County, Kansas

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    18

  • Community Water Systems

    16

  • Systems with Violations

    3

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    1

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    12

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    11/28/2018

  • Population Served

    19,138

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    2.02%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    2

  • CWA Total Violations

    5

The American Community Survey

  • HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    19

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.252%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    19,380

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $53,382

  • PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES BELOW POVERTY LEVEL (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    6.1%

  • MALE

    9,485

  • FEMALE

    9,895

  • MEDIAN AGE

    42.4

  • MULTIRACIAL

    18,753

  • WHITE

    16,677

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    168

  • LATINO

    627

  • ASIAN

    53

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    458

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    32

To learn more about individual water systems and violations please visit the echo.epa.gov interactive map for this county here: https://echo.epa.gov/facilities/facility-search/results?p_st=KS&p_fips=20021 Other .gov state water resources: https://enviro.epa.gov/envirofacts/sdwis/search/form?state_abbr=KS Additional state water resources:https://waterhub.ku.edu/kansashttps://www.waterqualitydata.us/provider/NWIS/USGS-KS/