What's in CARUTHERSVILLE PWS's water?
CARUTHERSVILLE PWS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,518 people get their water from it, across 2,145 connections.
CARUTHERSVILLE PWS's record against the rest of the country
8 total violations and 1 health-based ones put CARUTHERSVILLE PWS at the 35th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,382 of 12,903.
How CARUTHERSVILLE PWS compares within MO
CARUTHERSVILLE PWS's 1 health-based violations sit within 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 CARUTHERSVILLE PWS is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 2010-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/16/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CARUTHERSVILLE 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
CARUTHERSVILLE PWS'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 CARUTHERSVILLE PWS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,382th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.