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Community Water System · PWS MO1024031

Bates County PWSD 2

Operator location Amsterdam, Missouri - 71% of 266 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 752 served per SDWIS.

752
People served (this PWS)
266
EPA violations (this PWS)
190
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Bates County PWSD 2 standing, high SDWIS violation third

71% of 266 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 71% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #23,288 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Bates County PWSD 2 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (266), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (752; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 71% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#23,288 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#580 of 738
Population · MO
266
Total EPA violations on record
71%
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
301
County
Bates
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
116
Monitoring Violations
64
Treatment Tech Violations
74

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
CARBON, TOTAL TT 74 2024
TTHM MCL 60 2011
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 49 2010
Coliform (TCR) MR 40 2014
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 10 2023
Coliform (TCR) MCL 7 2008
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 5 2023
TTHM MR 4 2016
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 4 2016
Public Notice Other 3 2021
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 2007

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Bates County PWSD 2 has 266 recorded EPA violations, 89% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 11% carry more. 71% of this system's own violations are health-based (190 of 266), and it ranks #23,288 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)

266 Higher than most more violations than 89% 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 Bates County PWSD 2

190 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MO1024031.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Missouri DNR, Public Drinking Water Branch

Nationwide peers

266 violations · 752 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Bates County PWSD 2

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater