Bloomsdale Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.18 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.
About Bloomsdale Pws
Bloomsdale Pws serves about 639 people through 235 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 Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4010079; phone on file: 573-883-6280. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Bloomsdale Pws's lead record
That is down 5.25 ppb from 6.43 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bloomsdale Pws is 6.43 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.18 ppb |
| 2025 | 6.43 ppb |
| 2023 | 6.43 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.51 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.51 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.31 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.31 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.49 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.49 ppb |
How Bloomsdale 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. Bloomsdale Pws's 1.18 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in Missouri and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Ste. Genevieve County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bloomsdale Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ste Genevieve Pws | 4,999 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ste Genevieve County Pwsd 1 Sc | 3,718 | 1.5 ppb |
| Ste Genevieve County Pwsd 1 North | 1,287 | 1.11 ppb |
| Lake Forest Estates | 811 | 1.35 ppb |
| Grayhawk Water | 750 | 1.41 ppb |
| Lake Seven Falls Assn Inc | 475 | 1.4 ppb |
| St Mary Pws | 350 | 3.25 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bloomsdale, 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 Bloomsdale 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.