Community Water System · PWS MO1024482
Platte County PWSD 8
Operator location Smithville, Missouri - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 151 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,200 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,200
- People served (this PWS)
- 151
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 30
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Platte County PWSD 8 standing, high SDWIS violation third
151 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 20% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #17,875 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Platte County PWSD 8 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (151), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,200 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 20% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #17,875 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #438 of 738
- Population · MO
- 151
- Total EPA violations on record
- 20%
- 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
- 425
- County
- Platte
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 30
- Monitoring Violations
- 101
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 80 | 2001 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 18 | 2007 |
| TTHM | MCL | 12 | 2016 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 8 | 2022 |
| TTHM | MR | 8 | 2022 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 1999 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2004 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Platte County PWSD 8 has 151 recorded EPA violations, 81% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 19% carry more. 20% of this system's own violations are health-based (30 of 151), and it ranks #17,875 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)
151 Higher than most more violations than 81% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Platte County PWSD 8
151 violations on record for MO1024482; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Missouri DNR, Public Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
151 violations · 1,200 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 Platte County PWSD 8
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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