Wichita, Kansas
City of Wichita Water Quality Report 2025 (2024 data). Cheney Reservoir and Equus Beds. Hardness, total as calcium carbonate, 170 ppm on 5/21/2024. Chlorine/chloramines residual RAA 3.4 ppm. No Measure S-style residential softener ban turned up.
- Hardness170 ppm (5/21/2024)
- Chlorine/chloramines3.4 ppm RAA
Best match for Wichita
Salt-based water softener
No district prohibition on a brine drain turned up in the current file.
A salt-based softener is the thing that actually removes hardness. Size it from your grains and how much water you use, not bathroom count. It needs a drain.
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Other options that still fit
Salt-free conditioner
A salt-free conditioner changes how scale sticks. It does not soften. Soap and spots stay closer to untreated. No brine line.
Whole-house carbon — match chlorine vs chloramine
Open the CCR for chlorine vs chloramine, then match that claim. A 42 chlorine listing is not chloramine.
Under-sink reverse osmosis
The under-sink RO we actually run is Cloud RO — NSF/ANSI 58, kitchen tap, not a whole-house tank. Check the exact listing if PFAS is why you are shopping. Shop Amazon first for under-sink RO, or buy Cloud direct. Waterdrop is a tankless option if you want that path. A certifier-listed pitcher is the cheap first step. Nobody is paying for a medical claim.
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Test the tap first
A homeowner kit is a start. It is not a state-certified lab. Use a certified lab when the decision is expensive.
On the report
- Water utility
- City of Wichita Public Works & Utilities
- Hardness
- Hardness, total (as calcium carbonate) 170 ppm, collection date 5/21/2024, on the 2024 secondary/unregulated table. One printed value for that date — not a year-long average we invented. — City of Wichita Water Quality Report 2025 (reporting year 2024)
- Disinfectant
- Chlorine/Chloramines Maximum Disinfection Level table prints MPA 3.4700 ppm and RAA 3.4 ppm for 2024. The row is labeled Chlorine/Chloramines — both names are on that heading. — City of Wichita Water Quality Report 2025 (reporting year 2024)
- Brine / salt to the sewer
- No district prohibition found in current research. Searched City of Wichita water and sewer pages and codes for a residential self-regenerating softener or brine-drain ban like LACSD Measure S. None turned up. Ask the sewer agency on the bill before you cut a brine drain.
Also around here
Extra context besides the utility report and the chart above — geology, an unregulated table, or a published study. Not a second set of printed tap numbers.
- MicroplasticsWHO’s 2019 review examined studies that found microplastic particles in treated tap and bottled water in many places. That is a published-occurrence finding, not a number from this city’s water-quality report, and we do not invent a particles-per-liter count for the tap.Microplastics in drinking-water — World Health Organization
- PFASEPA’s Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule required community systems this size to test 29 PFAS and lithium in 2023–2025. Open the UCMR 5 Data Finder for this PWS. This file does not invent a detection.Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Wichita drinking water comes from Cheney Reservoir and the Equus Beds aquifer and is treated by the City of Wichita. No City of Wichita residential softener ban like LACSD Measure S turned up. Ask the sewer agency on the bill before you cut a brine drain. This is not a legal opinion.
The 2025 report (2024 data) prints hardness, total as calcium carbonate 170 ppm on 5/21/2024. That is the printed collection-date value, not a year-long average we invented.
The disinfectant row is labeled Chlorine/Chloramines and prints RAA 3.4 ppm. We do not pick chlorine or chloramine beyond that heading. Kitchen shopping stays the Cloud RO / Waterdrop path already used on other cities if a listing is why you are looking.
Sources
- Water Quality Report 2025 (reporting year 2024) — City of Wichita. Accessed 2026-09-09.
Updated September 9, 2026. A city file is chemistry we can cite plus the sewer rule. No invented detections.