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Putnam County, Missouri

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MO171 · Putnam County 4 sys · 165 viol · #2758/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-BOTTOM · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-NONE · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-SEVERE 75.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 54.5% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #2758/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-SW SW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 4 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Putnam County ranks #2,758 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #97 of 115 counties in Missouri. See methodology · corpus placement.

Putnam County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 75.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 54.5% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Putnam County . Population served ranks #2,758 of 3,254 · #97 of 115 in Missouri.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Putnam County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Shannon · lowest Ralls · near Howard · near 69.6% 75% 75% 80% 83.3% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Putnam County PWSD 1 2,997 26 -
Unionville PWS 1,735 46 -
Lake Thunderhead 585 93 -
Rathbun Regional Water Association 25 0 -

Compare beyond Missouri

Lower-flagged peers for Putnam County

Cross-state counties nearest Putnam County on flagged-system share (75.0%) and cumulative violation count (165). 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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