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MONTGOMERY CITY PWS: EPA violation history, explained

MONTGOMERY CITY PWS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,811 people get their water from it, across 1,424 connections.

MONTGOMERY CITY PWS's record against the rest of the country

Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, MONTGOMERY CITY PWS ranks 8,013th by violation burden (38th percentile) - 14 violations total, 1 health-based.

How MONTGOMERY CITY PWS compares within MO

MO's 327 covered systems average 6.1 health-based violations each; MONTGOMERY CITY PWS carries 1, not more than typical for the state. 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 MONTGOMERY CITY PWS is from 2014-01-01 (health-based: 2000-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 06/16/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

MONTGOMERY CITY 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:

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

This is what MONTGOMERY CITY PWS reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and MONTGOMERY CITY PWS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,013th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.