Bowling Green Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.01 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Bowling Green Pws at a glance
Bowling Green Pws serves about 4,195 people through 1,547 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Pike County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO2010093; phone on file: 573-324-5451. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Bowling Green Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1.36 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bowling Green Pws is 2.01 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.01 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.36 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.36 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1.29 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.29 ppb |
How Bowling Green 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. Bowling Green Pws's 2.01 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Missouri and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Pike County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bowling Green Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pike County Pwsd 1 | 7,590 | 1.77 ppb |
| Louisiana Pws | 3,244 | 4.42 ppb |
| Clarksville Pws | 442 | 5.9 ppb |
| Frankford Pws | 349 | 1.99 ppb |
| Curryville Pws | 203 | 10.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bowling Green, 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 Bowling Green 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.