Community Water System · PWSID MO5036117

Liberty Utilities Moore Bend

Serves 183 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateAurora, Missouri
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1998: 53 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 31 missed or late tests · 20 notices or reports. Most recent began 2017-01-06.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
31Missed or late test
20Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 96% of active water systems in Missouri. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1998 · Missed or late test: 120002002 · Missed or late test: 1200520102012 · Missed or late test: 22012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Treatment lapse: 12013 · Missed or late test: 42013 · Missed or late test: 42013 · Notice or report: 42013 · Notice or report: 42014 · Notice or report: 32014 · Notice or report: 32015 · Missed or late test: 112015 · Missed or late test: 112015 · Missed or late test: 112015 · Missed or late test: 112015 · Missed or late test: 112015 · Missed or late test: 112015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 122016 · Missed or late test: 122016 · Missed or late test: 122016 · Missed or late test: 122016 · Missed or late test: 122016 · Missed or late test: 122016 · Notice or report: 102016 · Notice or report: 102016 · Notice or report: 102016 · Notice or report: 102016 · Notice or report: 102017 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% over the limit · 12% treatment lapse · 158% missed or late test · 3138% notice or report · 20

Across Missouri, 54% of violations are missed or late tests and 8% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 7 results on file · action level 15 ppb

9.2 ppb
9.2 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.4 ppb
0.56 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2014-05-21Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2017-01-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2016-12-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2016-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2016-11-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2016-10-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2016-10-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2016-09-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2016-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2016-08-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2016-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-07-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2016-07-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2016-06-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2016-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2016-05-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2016-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2016-04-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2016-03-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2016-03-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2016-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  21. 2016-03-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  22. 2016-02-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  23. 2016-02-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  24. 2016-01-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  25. 2015-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
Show the other 27 entries
  1. 2015-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  2. 2015-11-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2015-10-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2015-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2015-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2015-07-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  8. 2015-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2015-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2015-04-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2015-02-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2014-06-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2014-05-21Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  14. 2013-12-15Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  15. 2013-10-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2013-10-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  17. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2013-07-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2013-05-04Groundwater RuleFailure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  21. 2013-05-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  22. 2013-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2012-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  24. 2012-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2012-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  26. 2002-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  27. 1998-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served183
Service connections73
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityAurora
EPA ZIP on file65605-0000

Areas served

  • Taney County

Reading this record

Liberty Utilities Moore Bend is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 183 people in Aurora, Missouri. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.