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TRENTON MUNICIPAL UTILITIES PWS: EPA violation history, explained

TRENTON MUNICIPAL UTILITIES PWS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,600 people get their water from it, across 2,637 connections.

How this compares nationally

TRENTON MUNICIPAL UTILITIES PWS has 47 violations on record in total, 22 of thems health-based - ranking it 811th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 94th percentile nationally.

Against the MO average

TRENTON MUNICIPAL UTILITIES PWS's 22 health-based violations sit above 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

TRENTON MUNICIPAL UTILITIES PWS's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-02-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2015-01-08. Last reported to EPA: 06/16/2026.

The concern categories on record

TRENTON MUNICIPAL UTILITIES 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 TRENTON MUNICIPAL UTILITIES PWS's record does not cover

Everything on this page is TRENTON MUNICIPAL UTILITIES PWS's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 47 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.