Baptist Home, MO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.67 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Baptist Home at a glance
Baptist Home serves about 110 people through 4 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Iron County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4069075; phone on file: 573-546-7429. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (6.12 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Baptist Home is 29.34 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 5.67 ppb |
| 2023 | 6.12 ppb |
| 2023 | 29.34 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 1.91 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.91 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.41 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.41 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.95 ppb |
Against other Missouri systems
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. Baptist Home's 5.67 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Missouri and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Iron County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Baptist Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mo American Ironton | 1,460 | 1 ppb |
| Pilot Knob Rural Wd 1 N & S | 839 | 2.34 ppb |
| Pilot Knob Pws | 746 | 2.44 ppb |
| Viburnum Pws | 639 | 1.61 ppb |
| Arcadia Pws | 607 | 2.59 ppb |
| Annapolis Pws | 300 | 1.54 ppb |
| Killarney Shores Subd | 203 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belleview Valley Nursing Home | 140 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ironton, 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 Baptist Home 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.