Blue Stem Estates Subd, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Blue Stem Estates Subd at a glance
Blue Stem Estates Subd serves about 36 people through 12 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Christian County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5031330; phone on file: 417-224-9829. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Blue Stem Estates Subd's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Blue Stem Estates Subd is 0 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Blue Stem Estates Subd 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. Blue Stem Estates Subd's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in Missouri and the 2nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Christian County
28 other systems share Christian County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Blue Stem Estates Subd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Nixa Pws | 24,532 | 1.12 ppb |
| Ozark Pws | 23,248 | 1.21 ppb |
| Nixa Pws Rde | 2,900 | 1.64 ppb |
| Clever Pws | 2,139 | 2.14 ppb |
| Sparta Pws | 1,946 | 0 (not detected) |
| Highlandville Pws | 1,417 | 2.13 ppb |
| Billings Pws | 1,035 | 1.17 ppb |
| Mo American Saddlebrooke Village Of | 440 | 0 (not detected) |
| Christian County Pwsd 1 | 325 | 0.68 ppb |
| Liberty Utilities Midland | 240 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Blue Stem Estates Subd's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Blue Stem Estates Subd 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.