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Community Water System · PWS MO4010658

Portageville PWS

Operator location Portageville, Missouri - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 111 EPA violations; groundwater source; 3,200 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

3,200
People served (this PWS)
111
EPA violations (this PWS)
2
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Portageville PWS standing, high SDWIS violation third

111 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 2% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #10,161 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Portageville PWS sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (111), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 3,200 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 2% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#10,161 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#222 of 738
Population · MO
111
Total EPA violations on record
2%
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
1,209
County
New Madrid
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
100
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Groundwater Rule MR 8 2023
Xylenes, Total MR 4 2023
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 4 2023
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 4 2023
Vinyl chloride MR 4 2023
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 4 2023
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 4 2023
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 4 2023
Carbon tetrachloride MR 4 2023
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 4 2023
Trichloroethylene MR 4 2023
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 4 2023
Tetrachloroethylene MR 4 2023
CHLOROBENZENE MR 4 2023
Styrene MR 4 2023
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 4 2024
Benzene MR 4 2023
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 4 2023
Toluene MR 4 2023
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 4 2023
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 4 2023
Ethylbenzene MR 4 2023
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 4 2023
Coliform (TCR) MR 3 1991
Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule TT 2 2011
Nitrate-Nitrite MR 1 1994

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Portageville PWS has 111 recorded EPA violations, 75% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 25% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 111), and it ranks #10,161 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)

111 Around the middle fewer violations than 25% 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 Portageville PWS

111 violations on record for MO4010658; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

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

Nationwide peers

111 violations · 3,200 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Portageville PWS

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