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Kansas City

Board of Public Utilities

2023 Water Quality Report
2023 Water Quality Report

The mission of the Water Division of the Kansas City Board
of Public Utilities (BPU) is to have available upon demand, to all
of our customers, good quality water and to provide that water in
the most efficient manner possible. For more than 100 years, BPU
has provided this community with quality water. We are proud to
continue this mission and hope that you find this water report useful
and informative.
BPU is one of the top rated public water utilities in the country. To learn more, visit BPU’s web site at www.bpu.com, or go to the
In recent years, BPU was one of only a handful to once again receive Environmental Protection Agency Web site at www.epa.gov/safewater.
the Partnership for Safe Water Directors Award. The Partnership for Visitors are also welcome to attend BPU’s regularly scheduled Board
Safe Water is a voluntary program between BPU (as well as other meetings, usually held on the first and third Wednesday of each month
participating water utilities) and the following water authorities: the at 6:00 p.m., at 540 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. To
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the American Water Works confirm the exact date and time of the next BPU Board meeting, call
Association, the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies and the (913) 573-9024.
Association of State Drinking Water Administrators, all of whom help For questions about BPU water quality, please call BPU’s Water
to sponsor the program. Processing Division at (913) 573-9272.
The program was established to provide safe, high-quality drinking Sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottled water)
water to the public that exceeds certain EPA regulations. Less than generally include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and
one percent of all utilities nationwide receive this award, and BPU was wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the ground,
the first and only utility in the metro area to receive this honor. it dissolves organic and inorganic minerals, and may pick up radioactive
BPU has also received the Platinum Award for Utility Excellence material and substances resulting from animal or human activity.
from the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA), one BPU’s water comes from the Missouri River watershed, which
of a select few utilities in the country to receive this recognition. The represents nearly one-sixth of the area of the continental United
award recognized BPU’s accomplishments in applying competitive States. The Missouri River carries runoff from predominantly rural,
business strategies to meet the expectations of drinking water non-industrialized regions. BPU water is collected and filtered
consumers and municipal leaders. AMWA is the organization for the through two horizontal collector wells in an aquifer deep below the
nation’s largest public drinking water utilities. Missouri River.
We want our valued customers to be Before this “raw” water turns into drinking water, it is cleaned,
informed! treated and tested at BPU’s Nearman Water Treatment Plant. The
plant opened in 2000, and offers the latest treatment and technology
The Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (BPU) serves over 51,000
methods available. Once the water meets or surpasses all regulations, it
water customers in a service area of approximately 152 square miles.
is then distributed through underground pipes to our customers.
This service area includes Kansas City, Kansas, Edwardsville, southern
BPU also has water interconnections with Kansas City, Missouri
Leavenworth County, parts of Bonner Springs and a small section of
and Johnson County (Kansas) Water District No. 1 (WaterOne).
northern Johnson County. BPU’s state-of-the art water system has the
Both of these water systems also use the Missouri River as their water
capacity to pump 72 million gallons of water a day (MGD), including
supply source.
one water treatment facility; three major pump stations; 1,000 miles of
Is your water safe to drink? Yes it is!
water pipes and two of the nation’s largest horizontal collector wells.
This report describes the quality of your drinking water and how BPU’s water quality consistently exceeds all federal and state
BPU complies with water regulations that protect your health. standards. Federal and state regulations include procedures and schedules
This document also complies with the 1996 Safe Drinking Water to monitor water from the source to the tap. The Kansas Department
Act, which requires water utilities to provide water quality information of Health & Environment (KDHE) assures that the state’s public
to customers every year. water systems comply with all regulations, follow monitoring schedules
and report results. Certified by the State of Kansas, BPU’s laboratory
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