Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MO5272955
Buffalo Creek Baptist Church
Operator location Anderson, Missouri - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 150 people served; 189 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 150
- People served (this PWS)
- 189
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 36
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Buffalo Creek Baptist Church standing, high SDWIS violation third
150 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 19% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Buffalo Creek Baptist Church sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (189), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (150; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 19% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 189
- Total EPA violations on record
- 19%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 150
- 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
- Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 1
- County
- McDonald
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 32
- Monitoring Violations
- 147
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 52 | 2013 |
| E. COLI | MR | 48 | 2022 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 38 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 32 | 2012 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 9 | 2020 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 4 | 2022 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Buffalo Creek Baptist Church has 189 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 15% carry more. 19% of this system's own violations are health-based (36 of 189), 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)
189 Higher than most more violations than 84% 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 Buffalo Creek Baptist Church
EPA SDWIS lists 150 people served and 1 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
189 violations · 150 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 Buffalo Creek Baptist Church
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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