DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in CAPE PERRY COUNTY PWSD 1 SOUTH's water?

CAPE PERRY COUNTY PWSD 1 SOUTH has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 8,545 people get their water from it, across 2,992 connections.

CAPE PERRY COUNTY PWSD 1 SOUTH's record against the rest of the country

19 total violations and 11 health-based ones put CAPE PERRY COUNTY PWSD 1 SOUTH at the 86th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,809 of 12,903.

How CAPE PERRY COUNTY PWSD 1 SOUTH compares within MO

CAPE PERRY COUNTY PWSD 1 SOUTH's 11 health-based violations sit above the MO average of 6.1, across 327 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for CAPE PERRY COUNTY PWSD 1 SOUTH is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 2015-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 06/16/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

CAPE PERRY COUNTY PWSD 1 SOUTH's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:

The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

CAPE PERRY COUNTY PWSD 1 SOUTH's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and CAPE PERRY COUNTY PWSD 1 SOUTH's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,809th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.