Community Water System · PWSID LA1063018

River Pines Plantation Utilities

Serves 300 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentDes Peres, Missouri
2 open treatment violations.

Open for: Groundwater Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2002: 22 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 10 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-07-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
4Treatment lapse2 open
10Missed or late test
8Notice or report

More violations on record than 89% 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

2002 · Notice or report: 12004 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Notice or report: 1200520102011 · Missed or late test: 22011 · Missed or late test: 22013 · Missed or late test: 22013 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 42023 · Treatment lapse: 42023 · Treatment lapse: 42023 · Treatment lapse: 42023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
18% treatment lapse · 445% missed or late test · 1036% notice or report · 8

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2023-06-28Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2023-11-10Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  3. 2023-08-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2023-06-28Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  5. 2023-06-28Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  6. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2018-02-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2016-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  10. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2015-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2014-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2014-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2013-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2013-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2011-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2011-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2004-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  20. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served300
Service connections75
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityDes Peres
EPA ZIP on file63131

Areas served

  • Livingston Parish

Reading this record

River Pines Plantation Utilities is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 300 people in Des Peres, 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.