Community Water System · PWS MO5031602
Malfunction Junction
Operator location Carthage, Missouri - 60% of 45 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 37 served per SDWIS.
- 37
- People served (this PWS)
- 45
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 27
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Malfunction Junction standing, mid SDWIS violation third
60% of 45 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 60% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Malfunction Junction lands in the middle third by violation volume (45), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (37; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 60% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 45
- Total EPA violations on record
- 60%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 37
- 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
- 20
- County
- Jasper
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 27
- Monitoring Violations
- 9
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 27 | 2015 |
| E. COLI | MR | 8 | 2022 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2025 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 1 | 2024 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 1 | 2009 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Malfunction Junction has 45 recorded EPA violations, 54% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 46% carry more. 60% of this system's own violations are health-based (27 of 45), 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)
45 Around the middle fewer violations than 46% 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 Malfunction Junction
27 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MO5031602.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Missouri DNR, Public Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
45 violations · 37 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Malfunction Junction
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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