Buchanan County Pwsd 1, MO

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.32 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.

Buchanan County Pwsd 1 at a glance

Buchanan County Pwsd 1 serves about 2,115 people through 812 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 Buchanan County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO1024064; phone on file: 816-646-1903. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Lead results over time

Against the period ending 2022 (2.08 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Buchanan County Pwsd 1 is 2.08 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Against other Missouri systems

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. Buchanan County Pwsd 1's 1.32 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in Missouri and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).

Other water systems in Buchanan County

2 other systems share Buchanan County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Buchanan County Pwsd 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

Next steps for Dekalb, MO

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dekalb, 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 Buchanan County Pwsd 1 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.