Community Water System · PWS MO1010301
MO American Garden City
Operator location Joplin, Missouri - 91% of 414 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,590 served per SDWIS.
- 1,590
- People served (this PWS)
- 414
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 378
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
MO American Garden City standing, high SDWIS violation third
91% of 414 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 91% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #15,441 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
MO American Garden City sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (414), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,590 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 91% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,441 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #377 of 738
- Population · MO
- 414
- Total EPA violations on record
- 91%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 720
- County
- Cass
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 211
- Monitoring Violations
- 24
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 167
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 129 | 2020 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 89 | 2019 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 54 | 2020 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 51 | 2002 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | TT | 27 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 19 | 2010 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 12 | 2002 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 12 | 2025 |
| Chlorite | MCL | 9 | 2022 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2013 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
MO American Garden City has 414 recorded EPA violations, 94% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 6% carry more. 91% of this system's own violations are health-based (378 of 414), and it ranks #15,441 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)
414 Higher than most more violations than 94% 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 MO American Garden City
378 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MO1010301.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Missouri DNR, Public Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
414 violations · 1,590 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
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 MO American Garden City
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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