Community Water System · PWS MO4010255
Essex PWS
Operator location Essex, Missouri - 36% of 99 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 399 served per SDWIS.
- 399
- People served (this PWS)
- 99
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 36
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Essex PWS standing, high SDWIS violation third
36% of 99 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 36% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Essex PWS sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (99), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (399; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 36% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 99
- Total EPA violations on record
- 36%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 399
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 260
- County
- Stoddard
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 17
- Monitoring Violations
- 49
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 19
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 19 | 2025 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 15 | 2017 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 11 | 2013 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MCL | 6 | 2022 |
| Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | TT | 4 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 2000 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2025 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 1994 |
| Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 1 | 2013 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2023 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| Toluene | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| Styrene | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 1 | 2000 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Essex PWS has 99 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 36% of this system's own violations are health-based (36 of 99), 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)
99 Around the middle fewer violations than 27% 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 Essex PWS
36 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MO4010255.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Missouri DNR, Public Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
99 violations · 399 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 Essex PWS
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