Is RALLS COUNTY PWSD 1's water safe to drink?
RALLS COUNTY PWSD 1 had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 7,662 people get their water from it, across 2,953 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
12 total violations and 9 health-based ones put RALLS COUNTY PWSD 1 at the 83th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,252 of 12,903.
How RALLS COUNTY PWSD 1 compares within MO
MO's 327 covered systems average 6.1 health-based violations each; RALLS COUNTY PWSD 1 carries 9, 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 RALLS COUNTY PWSD 1 is from 2023-01-01 (health-based: 2023-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/16/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
RALLS 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)
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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 RALLS COUNTY PWSD 1 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 RALLS COUNTY PWSD 1's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,252th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.