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Community Water System · PWS MO5021292

PWSD 2 of Hickory Co

Operator location Wheatland, Missouri - 45% of 94 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,450 served per SDWIS.

1,450
People served (this PWS)
94
EPA violations (this PWS)
42
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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PWSD 2 of Hickory Co standing, high SDWIS violation third

45% of 94 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 45% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #16,292 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

PWSD 2 of Hickory Co sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (94), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,450 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 45% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#16,292 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#403 of 738
Population · MO
94
Total EPA violations on record
45%
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
627
County
Hickory
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
42
Monitoring Violations
50
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 42 2013
Coliform (TCR) MR 31 2014
E. COLI MR 16 2013
Lead and Copper Rule MR 2 2024
Public Notice Other 1 2014
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 1 2004

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

PWSD 2 of Hickory Co has 94 recorded EPA violations, 72% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 28% carry more. 45% of this system's own violations are health-based (42 of 94), and it ranks #16,292 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)

94 Around the middle fewer violations than 28% 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 PWSD 2 of Hickory Co

42 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MO5021292.

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

Nationwide peers

94 violations · 1,450 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with PWSD 2 of Hickory Co

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater