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Ralls County, Missouri

4 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 15,813 people in Ralls County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

4
SDWIS water systems Smaller third of counties
65
Total violations Lower third of counties
75.0%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
100.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (2 tested) Upper third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MO173 · Ralls County 4 sys · 65 viol · #1968/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 75.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 56.9% health
  • RANK-LOWER #1968/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 75%
  • SYS-TINY 4 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Ralls County ranks #1,968 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #53 of 115 counties in Missouri. See methodology · corpus placement.

Ralls 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 56.9% 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 #1,968 of 3,254 · #53 of 115 in Missouri.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Ralls County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Shannon · lowest Putnam · 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
Ralls County PWSD 1 7,662 46 Detected
Cannon PWSD 1 6,482 13 Detected
New London PWS 975 6 -
Perry PWS 694 0 -

Compare beyond Missouri

Lower-flagged peers for Ralls County

Cross-state counties nearest Ralls County on flagged-system share (75.0%) and cumulative violation count (65). 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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