Each of the three times it was tested this year, water provided by Auburn Rural Water District No. 1 near S.W. 61st and Hoch Road was found to be out of compliance with Environmental Protection Agency standards for a contaminant called haloacetic acids.
That district receives its water from the city of Topeka. The city blames this year’s abnormally high contaminant levels at Auburn and in other cities across Kansas on excessive rains and releases of water into the Kansas River from upstream reservoirs.
The Auburn water is still safe to drink, and customers do not need to switch to bottled water, district manager Mike Dawson said in a letter he mailed out Wednesday.
(Read more: Local – The Topeka Capital-Journal)