Community Water System · PWS MO3031366
The Missing Well
Operator location Des Peres, Missouri - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 173 people served; 1,555 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 173
- People served (this PWS)
- 1,555
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 11
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
The Missing Well standing, high SDWIS violation third
173 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
The Missing Well sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (1,555), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (173; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 1,555
- Total EPA violations on record
- 1%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 173
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
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
- 68
- County
- Benton
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 11
- Monitoring Violations
- 1,323
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 991 | 2011 |
| Public Notice | Other | 203 | 2012 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 43 | 2007 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 31 | 2007 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 31 | 2010 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 31 | 2010 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 15 | 2011 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 14 | 2009 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 11 | 2015 |
| Barium | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| Fluoride | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| Mercury | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| Selenium | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| Cadmium | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| Chromium | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| Arsenic | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 5 | 2006 |
| Toluene | MR | 5 | 2006 |
| Styrene | MR | 5 | 2006 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 5 | 2006 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2006 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 5 | 2006 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 5 | 2006 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 5 | 2006 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2006 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 5 | 2006 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
The Missing Well has 1,555 recorded EPA violations, 100% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 0% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (11 of 1,555), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
1,555 Higher than most more violations than 99%+ of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for The Missing Well
EPA SDWIS lists 173 people served and 68 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Missouri DNR, Public Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
1,555 violations · 173 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.
What to do with The Missing Well
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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