Is COLE COUNTY PWSD 1's water safe to drink?
COLE COUNTY PWSD 1 has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 16,548, over 6,995 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, COLE COUNTY PWSD 1 ranks 8,827th by violation burden (32th percentile) - 4 violations total, 1 health-based.
Against the MO average
Among the 327 MO systems in this dataset, the average is 6.1 health-based violations - COLE COUNTY PWSD 1's 1 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
COLE COUNTY PWSD 1's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-02-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 1999-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/16/2026.
The concern categories on record
COLE COUNTY PWSD 1'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 COLE COUNTY PWSD 1's record does not cover
Everything on this page is COLE COUNTY PWSD 1's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and COLE COUNTY PWSD 1's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,827th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.