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Howell County, Missouri

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MO091 · Howell County 17 sys · 479 viol · #1592/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 88.2% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 43.8% health
  • RANK-MID #1592/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 94%
  • SYS-SMALL 17 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Ste. Genevieve County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Howell County ranks #1,592 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #38 of 115 counties in Missouri. See methodology · corpus placement.

Howell County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 88.2% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 43.8% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,592 of 3,254 · #38 of 115 in Missouri.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Howell County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Shannon · lowest Howell · this county Madison · near Mercer · highest 69.6% 87.5% 88.2% 88.2% 88.9% 89.7% 100%

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

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Lower-flagged peers for Howell County

Cross-state counties nearest Howell County on flagged-system share (88.2%) and cumulative violation count (479). 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.

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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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