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Shannon County, Missouri

23 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 5,979 people in Shannon County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

23
SDWIS water systems Middle third of counties
409
Total violations Lower third of counties
69.6%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
-
UCMR5 PFAS (none tested) No UCMR5 tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MO203 · Shannon County 23 sys · 409 viol · #2697/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-NONE · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-SEVERE 69.6% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 27.4% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #2697/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 5.4 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 23 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Ralls County (+ 5.4 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Shannon County ranks #2,697 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #95 of 115 counties in Missouri. See methodology · corpus placement.

Shannon County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 69.6% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 27.4% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Shannon County . Population served ranks #2,697 of 3,254 · #95 of 115 in Missouri.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Shannon County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Shannon · this county · lowest Shelby · near 69.6% 75% 75% 80% 83.3% 100%

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

Water Systems

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Lower-flagged peers for Shannon County

Cross-state counties nearest Shannon County on flagged-system share (69.6%) and cumulative violation count (409). 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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