Transient Non-Community · PWSID MO5218163

The Steak Inn

Serves 70 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateShell Knob, Missouri
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform 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 1992: 28 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 20 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-15.

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
3Treatment lapse1 open
20Missed or late test
5Notice or report4 open

More violations on record than 91% 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

1992 · Missed or late test: 11993 · Missed or late test: 11994 · Missed or late test: 21994 · Missed or late test: 21995 · Missed or late test: 31995 · Missed or late test: 31995 · Missed or late test: 319951998 · Missed or late test: 21998 · Missed or late test: 220002001 · Missed or late test: 120052006 · Notice or report: 22006 · Notice or report: 22007 · Notice or report: 22007 · Notice or report: 220102012 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
11% treatment lapse · 371% missed or late test · 2018% notice or report · 5

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

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

Open now (5)

  1. 2025-09-15Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  2. 2007-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2007-01-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2006-11-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2006-05-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-15Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  2. 2025-08-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2023-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2022-09-29Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  7. 2021-06-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  8. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2017-07-31Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  10. 2017-04-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2015-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  13. 2013-09-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2012-09-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2007-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  16. 2007-01-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  17. 2006-11-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  18. 2006-05-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  19. 2001-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  20. 1998-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  21. 1998-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  22. 1995-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  23. 1995-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  24. 1995-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  25. 1994-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
Show the other 3 entries
  1. 1994-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  2. 1993-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  3. 1992-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served70
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityShell Knob
EPA ZIP on file65747-0000

Areas served

  • Barry County

Reading this record

The Steak Inn is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 70 people in Shell Knob, 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.