Blue Springs Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.81 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
Blue Springs Pws serves about 61,084 people through 21,704 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Jackson County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO1010080; phone on file: 816-228-0195. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (2.77 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Blue Springs Pws is 2.81 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.81 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.77 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.77 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.77 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.52 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.52 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.52 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.83 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. Blue Springs Pws's 2.81 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Missouri and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
27 other systems share Jackson County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Blue Springs Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Independence Pws | 120,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Lees Summit Pws | 99,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson County Pwsd 1 | 24,500 | 3.45 ppb |
| Raytown Water Company | 17,066 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson County Pwsd 2 | 16,440 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grain Valley Pws | 16,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson County Pwsd 13 | 9,700 | 1.54 ppb |
| Oak Grove Pws | 9,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson County Pwsd 15 | 8,772 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson County Pwsd 12 | 5,695 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Blue Springs, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Blue Springs, 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 Blue Springs 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.