Bucklin Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.59 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.
About Bucklin Pws
Bucklin Pws serves about 408 people through 216 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: MO2010112; phone on file: 660-695-3321. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Bucklin Pws's lead record
That is up 1.7 ppb from 0.89 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bucklin Pws is 2.59 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.59 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.89 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.89 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.89 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.92 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.92 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.92 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.56 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. Bucklin Pws's 2.59 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Missouri and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Linn County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bucklin 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 |
| Laclede Pws | 345 | 0 (not detected) |
| Linneus Pws | 278 | 0 (not detected) |
| Browning Pws | 265 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Bucklin, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bucklin, 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 Bucklin 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.