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Vernon County, Missouri

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MO217 · Vernon County 8 sys · 945 viol · #1704/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 71.3% health
  • RANK-MID #1704/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 88%
  • SYS-TINY 8 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Vernon County ranks #1,704 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #42 of 115 counties in Missouri. See methodology · corpus placement.

Vernon County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 71.3% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #1,704 of 3,254 · #42 of 115 in Missouri.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Vernon County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Shannon · lowest Mercer · highest Jackson · near Boone · near 69.6% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Vernon County Cons PWSD 1 9,615 72 Clean
Nevada PWS 8,198 40 Clean
Vernon County PWSD 2 1,800 19 -
Vernon County PWSD 7 550 84 -
Sheldon PWS 543 28 -
Walker PWS 283 106 -
Schell City PWS 250 60 -
Bronaugh PWS 245 536 -

Compare beyond Missouri

Mid-flagged peers for Vernon County

Cross-state counties nearest Vernon County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (945). 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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