Altenburg Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.46 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Altenburg Pws at a glance
Altenburg Pws serves about 341 people through 172 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Perry County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4010011; phone on file: 573-517-3097. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Altenburg Pws's lead record
That is up 1.61 ppb from 1.85 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Altenburg Pws is 3.46 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.46 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.85 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.85 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.57 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.57 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.05 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.05 ppb |
How Altenburg 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. Altenburg Pws's 3.46 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Missouri and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Perry County
9 other systems share Perry County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Altenburg Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Perryville Pws | 8,555 | 1.92 ppb |
| Perry County Pwsd 1 | 2,065 | 0 (not detected) |
| Port Perry Service | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Perry County Pwsd 2 | 750 | 0 (not detected) |
| S K & M Water And Sewer Company | 750 | 6.41 ppb |
| Mill Spring | 250 | 3.51 ppb |
| Lake Kah Tan Da Estates Inc | 158 | 3.46 ppb |
| St Marys Seminary | 60 | 1.71 ppb |
| Farrar Water Assn | 34 | 3.39 ppb |
Next steps for Perryville, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Perryville, 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 Altenburg 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.