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Clay County, Missouri

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MO047 · Clay County 21 sys · 851 viol · #499/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 34.2% health
  • RANK-TOP #499/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 52%
  • SYS-SMALL 21 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, Clay County ranks #499 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #10 of 115 counties in Missouri. See methodology · corpus placement.

Clay 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 34.2% 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 #499 of 3,254 · #10 of 115 in Missouri.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Clay County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Clay 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

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Liberty PWS 30,800 115 Clean
Gladstone PWS 27,000 1 Clean
Kearney PWS 11,500 11 Detected
Excelsior Springs PWS 11,084 27 Clean
Smithville PWS 10,885 154 Detected
Ray County Cons PWSD 2 9,360 5 Clean
Clay County PWSD 6 4,912 11 Detected
North Kansas City PWS 4,500 7 Detected
Clay County PWSD 2 3,485 19 -
Clay County PWSD 3 3,447 40 Clean
Clay County PWSD 9 2,465 8 -
Clay County PWSD 8 2,243 14 Detected
Clay County PWSD 5 1,191 9 -
Clay County PWSD 4 1,032 15 -
Liberty Village MHP 350 21 -
Missouri City PWS 254 124 -
Clay County PWSD 7 245 39 -
Birmingham Village of PWS 200 33 -
Prathersville PWS 120 7 -
Mosby PWS 115 185 -
Twin Lakes MHP 60 6 -

Compare beyond Missouri

Mid-flagged peers for Clay County

Cross-state counties nearest Clay County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (851). 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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