Community Water System · PWS MO1010068
Bethany PWS
Operator location Bethany, Missouri - 88% of 66 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 3,292 served per SDWIS.
- 3,292
- People served (this PWS)
- 66
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 58
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bethany PWS standing, mid SDWIS violation third
88% of 66 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 88% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #9,970 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Bethany PWS lands in the middle third by violation volume (66), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 3,292 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 88% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #9,970 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #215 of 738
- Population · MO
- 66
- Total EPA violations on record
- 88%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 1,591
- County
- Harrison
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 29
- Monitoring Violations
- 3
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 29
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARBON, TOTAL | TT | 29 | 2013 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 29 | 2006 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2022 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 1992 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 1 | 1998 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bethany PWS has 66 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 88% of this system's own violations are health-based (58 of 66), and it ranks #9,970 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
66 Around the middle fewer violations than 36% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Bethany PWS
58 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MO1010068.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Missouri DNR, Public Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
66 violations · 3,292 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Bethany PWS
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Missouri compares on the same EPA violation measures. Missouri systems
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