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Howard County, Missouri

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MO089 · Howard County 6 sys · 371 viol · #2496/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-LOWER · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 83.3% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 60.6% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2496/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 1.7 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 6 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Dade County (+ 1.7 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Howard County ranks #2,496 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #82 of 115 counties in Missouri. See methodology · corpus placement.

Howard County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 83.3% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 60.6% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #2,496 of 3,254 · #82 of 115 in Missouri.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Howard County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Shannon · lowest Howard · this county Warren · near Mercer · highest 69.6% 80% 83.3% 85% 85.2% 87.5% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Fayette PWS 2,800 124 -
Howard County Cons PWSD 1 2,100 46 -
Howard County PWSD 2 1,165 12 Clean
Glasgow PWS 1,103 44 -
New Franklin PWS 1,089 145 -
Howard County Regional Water Comm 25 0 -

Compare beyond Missouri

Lower-flagged peers for Howard County

Cross-state counties nearest Howard County on flagged-system share (83.3%) and cumulative violation count (371). 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).

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

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