CARTHAGE PWS: EPA violation history, explained
CARTHAGE PWS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 14,600 people through 6,076 service connections.
CARTHAGE PWS's record against the rest of the country
CARTHAGE PWS has 4 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,834th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 32th percentile nationally.
How CARTHAGE PWS compares within MO
CARTHAGE PWS's 1 health-based violations sit within the MO average of 6.1, across 327 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CARTHAGE PWS is from 2022-01-07 (health-based: 2002-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 06/16/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CARTHAGE PWS'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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
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
Everything on this page is CARTHAGE PWS's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for CARTHAGE PWS - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.