Burlington Junction Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.53 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.
Burlington Junction Pws at a glance
Burlington Junction Pws serves about 630 people through 242 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 Nodaway County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO1010117; phone on file: 660-725-4514. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Burlington Junction Pws's lead record
That is down 2.16 ppb from 3.69 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Burlington Junction Pws is 9.09 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.53 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.69 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.69 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.69 ppb |
| 2019 | 6.64 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.64 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.64 ppb |
| 2016 | 9.09 ppb |
How Burlington Junction 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. Burlington Junction Pws's 1.53 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Missouri and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Nodaway County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Burlington Junction Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Maryville Pws | 10,775 | 6.05 ppb |
| Nodaway County Pwsd 1 | 6,428 | 1.41 ppb |
| Hopkins Pws | 550 | 1.77 ppb |
| Ravenwood Pws | 420 | 0 (not detected) |
| Skidmore Pws | 230 | 5.74 ppb |
| Barnard Pws | 220 | 2.9 ppb |
| Clearmont Pws | 210 | 1.8 ppb |
| Conception Junction Pws | 192 | 0 (not detected) |
| Graham Pws | 170 | 0.85 ppb |
| Elmo Pws | 169 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Burlington Junction, 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 Burlington Junction 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.