Alba Pws, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Alba Pws at a glance
Alba Pws serves about 555 people through 288 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 Jasper County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5010004; phone on file: 417-525-4463. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Alba Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Alba Pws is 1.48 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1.48 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.48 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Alba Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 25th percentile in Missouri and the 23rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Jasper County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Alba Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mo American Joplin | 73,728 | 4 ppb |
| Carthage Pws | 14,600 | 1.86 ppb |
| Webb City Pws | 13,404 | 3.58 ppb |
| Carl Junction Pws | 8,142 | 1.47 ppb |
| Jasper County Pwsd 1 | 5,500 | 2.82 ppb |
| Jasper County Pwsd 2 | 3,383 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oronogo Pws | 2,719 | 1.24 ppb |
| Carterville Pws | 1,982 | 1.64 ppb |
| Jasper County Pwsd 3 | 1,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sarcoxie Pws | 1,539 | 3.35 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Alba Pws's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Alba 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.