Bell City Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.74 ppb (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Bell City Pws serves about 428 people through 195 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 Stoddard County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4010052; phone on file: 573-733-4425. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Bell City Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (2.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bell City Pws is 3.54 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.74 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.54 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.54 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.54 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.7 ppb |
How Bell City 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. Bell City Pws's 2.74 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Missouri and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Stoddard County
15 other systems share Stoddard County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bell City 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 |
| Advance Pws | 1,400 | 3.1 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 |
Next steps for Bell City, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bell City, 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 Bell City 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.