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Shelby County, Missouri

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MO205 · Shelby County 5 sys · 109 viol · #2650/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 80.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 45.9% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #2650/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 3.3 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 5 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Howard County (+ 3.3 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Shelby County ranks #2,650 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #92 of 115 counties in Missouri. See methodology · corpus placement.

Shelby County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 80.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 45.9% 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 #2,650 of 3,254 · #92 of 115 in Missouri.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Shelby County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Shannon · lowest Putnam · near Howard · near Mercer · highest 69.6% 75% 75% 80% 83.3% 85% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Shelby County PWSD 1 3,300 5 -
Shelbina PWS 1,771 16 -
Clarence PWS 813 41 -
Shelbyville 552 0 Detected
Hunnewell PWS 184 47 -

Compare beyond Missouri

Lower-flagged peers for Shelby County

Cross-state counties nearest Shelby County on flagged-system share (80.0%) and cumulative violation count (109). 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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