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Community Water System · PWS MO3036113

MO American Whitebranch Subd

Operator location Joplin, Missouri - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 450 people served; 52 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

450
People served (this PWS)
52
EPA violations (this PWS)
2
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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MO American Whitebranch Subd standing, mid SDWIS violation third

450 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

MO American Whitebranch Subd lands in the middle third by violation volume (52), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (450; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

52
Total EPA violations on record
4%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
450
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
169
County
Benton
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
2
Monitoring Violations
32
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 11 2001
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 1999
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 1 1993
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 1 1993
Carbon tetrachloride MR 1 1993
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 1 1993
CHLOROBENZENE MR 1 1993
Ethylbenzene MR 1 1993
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 1 1993
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 1 1993
Tetrachloroethylene MR 1 1993
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 1 1993
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 1 1993
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 1 1993
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 1 1993
Vinyl chloride MR 1 1993
Xylenes, Total MR 1 1993
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 1 1993
Trichloroethylene MR 1 1993
Styrene MR 1 1993
Benzene MR 1 1993
Toluene MR 1 1993
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 1 1993

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

MO American Whitebranch Subd has 52 recorded EPA violations, 57% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 42% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 52), 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)

52 Around the middle fewer violations than 42% 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 MO American Whitebranch Subd

EPA SDWIS lists 450 people served and 169 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

52 violations · 450 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with MO American Whitebranch Subd

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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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