Tap water · KS
Wichita Public Works & Utilities
EPA system ID KS2017308 · serves about 395,699 people. Every US utility must publish an annual water quality report — here’s the official one (2025), and below it, our plain-English translation.
Read the official report →What Wichita Public Works & Utilities found in 2025
27 detected analytes from the utility’s own annual report, hand-normalized — 4 were near or over a limit (flagged below).
| Detected | Level | Limit | % of limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium | 140 ppm | 100 ppm | 140% | Over limit |
| Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) | 540 ppm | 500 ppm | 108% | Over limit |
| Bromate | 8.1 ppb | 10 ppb | 81% | Near limit |
| Chloride | 200 ppm | 250 ppm | 80% | Near limit |
| Conductivity @ 25° Celsius | 930 UMHO/CM | 1,500 UMHO/CM | 62% | Within limit |
| TTHM (highest of multiple sources) | 31 ppb | 80 ppb | 39% | Within limit |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) (highest of multiple sources) | 22 ppb | 60 ppb | 37% | Within limit |
| Sulfate | 86 ppm | 250 ppm | 34% | Within limit |
| Hardness, Total (as calcium carbonate) | 130 ppm | 400 ppm | 33% | Within limit |
| Alkalinity, Total | 79 ppm | 300 ppm | 26% | Within limit |
| Silica | 6.6 ppm | 50 ppm | 13% | Within limit |
| Arsenic | 1.2 ppb | 10 ppb | 12% | Within limit |
| Magnesium | 17 ppm | 150 ppm | 11% | Within limit |
| Calcium | 22 ppm | 200 ppm | 11% | Within limit |
| Lead (90th percentile) | 1.42 ppb | 15 ppb | 9% | Within limit |
| Nitrate | 0.82 ppm | 10 ppm | 8% | Within limit |
| Copper, Free | 0.105 ppm | 1.3 ppm | 8% | Within limit |
| Fluoride | 0.31 ppm | 4 ppm | 8% | Within limit |
| Potassium | 5.2 ppm | 100 ppm | 5% | Within limit |
| Manganese | 0.002 ppm | 0.05 ppm | 3% | Within limit |
| Selenium | 1.4 ppb | 50 ppb | 3% | Within limit |
| Barium | 0.046 ppm | 2 ppm | 2% | Within limit |
| Phosphorus, Total | 0.066 ppm | 5 ppm | 1% | Within limit |
| pH | 8.5 pH | — | — | No federal limit |
| Chlorine/Chloramines | 3.55 MG/L | — | — | No federal limit |
| Total Organic Carbon Lowest Month for Removal | 2 | — | — | No federal limit |
| Coliform (TCR) | 0.55 % | — | — | No federal limit |
Levels and limits are as printed in the utility’s report (“limit” is the EPA MCL, action level, residual limit, or secondary guideline that applies to that row; “ND” = not detected). Utilities publish these reports annually — we re-check every covered utility each July, after the federal publication deadline. Detected doesn’t mean dangerous — most detections sit far below their limits. This is education, not medical advice.
Your tap, if it were a bottle
How Wichita Public Works & Utilities water stacks up against the bottled aisle
Same minerals, same units — the tap values below come from the utility’s report, placed next to the closest match in our bottled-water database.
| Mineral | Your tap | Closest bottled match |
|---|---|---|
| Total dissolved solids | 540 mg/L | Perrier at 468 mg/L |
| Calcium | 22 mg/L | Ty Nant at 22.5 mg/L |
| Magnesium | 17 mg/L | Jackson Springs at 16.1 mg/L |
| Sodium | 140 mg/L | Gerolsteiner at 116 mg/L |
| Sulfate | 86 mg/L | Three Bays at 88 mg/L |
| Chloride | 200 mg/L | Crazy Water at 241 mg/L |
| Potassium | 5.2 mg/L | Fiji at 4.9 mg/L |
Tap values are the headline levels from the utility’s annual report (often a highest or average figure); bottled values are label- or report-derived. A closest match is a numeric comparison, not an equivalence or an endorsement.
Zip codes covered
67202 · 67203 · 67204 · 67205 · 67206 · 67207 · 67208 · 67209 · 67211 · 67212 · 67213 · 67214 · 67216 · 67217 · 67218 · 67230 · 67235
Boundary zips partially served by other systems are deliberately unlisted — check your exact zip.