Browning Pws, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
About Browning Pws
Browning Pws serves about 265 people through 110 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 surface water, in Linn County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO2010108; phone on file: 660-946-4215. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Browning Pws is 4.25 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 4.25 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.25 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.52 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. Browning Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 17th percentile in Missouri and the 17th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Linn County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Browning Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Chariton Linn County Pwsd 3 | 5,200 | 1.03 ppb |
| Brookfield Pws | 4,111 | 9.36 ppb |
| Marceline Pws | 2,200 | 4.5 ppb |
| Linn County Cons Pwsd 1 | 1,420 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meadville Pws | 415 | 1.68 ppb |
| Bucklin Pws | 408 | 2.59 ppb |
| Laclede Pws | 345 | 0 (not detected) |
| Linneus Pws | 278 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Browning Pws'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 Browning 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.