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Christian County, Missouri

41 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 60,446 people in Christian County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

41
SDWIS water systems Larger third of counties
3,048
Total violations Upper third of counties
100.0%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Middle third of counties
50.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (2 tested) Upper third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MO043 · Christian County 41 sys · 3,048 viol · #834/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-GW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 29.4% health
  • RANK-UPPER #834/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-MID 41 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Cass County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Christian County ranks #834 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #17 of 115 counties in Missouri. See methodology · corpus placement.

Christian County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 29.4% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 50.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #834 of 3,254 · #17 of 115 in Missouri.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Christian County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Christian County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Shannon · lowest Mercer · highest Jackson · near Boone · near 69.6% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

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Mid-flagged peers for Christian County

Cross-state counties nearest Christian County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (3,048). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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