Advance Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Advance Pws at a glance
Advance Pws serves about 1,400 people through 641 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Stoddard County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4010002; phone on file: 573-722-3156. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.19 ppb from 4.29 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Advance Pws is 4.98 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.29 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.98 ppb |
How Advance Pws compares
Of the 1,674 Missouri systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.04 ppb; 2 are over 15 ppb right now and 74 have gone over at some point. Advance Pws's 3.1 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Missouri and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Stoddard County
15 other systems share Stoddard County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Advance Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Dexter Pws | 8,200 | 2.03 ppb |
| Stoddard County Pwsd 1 | 3,000 | 1.52 ppb |
| Bloomfield Pws | 1,980 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bernie Pws | 1,898 | 6.43 ppb |
| Stoddard County Pwsd 4 | 1,530 | 11.5 ppb |
| Puxico Pws | 890 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stoddard County Pwsd 6 | 840 | 1.16 ppb |
| Stoddard County Pwsd 5 | 650 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stoddard County Pwsd 7 | 500 | 0.98 ppb |
| Bell City Pws | 428 | 2.74 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Advance, MO may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Advance Pws whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.