Butler County Pwsd 2, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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 Butler County Pwsd 2
Butler County Pwsd 2 serves about 1,500 people through 534 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 Butler County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4024071; phone on file: 573-328-4548. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Butler County Pwsd 2's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Butler County Pwsd 2 is 4.19 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.19 ppb |
How Butler County Pwsd 2 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. Butler County Pwsd 2's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 32nd percentile in Missouri and the 29th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Butler County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Butler County Pwsd 2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Poplar Bluff Pws | 17,043 | 0 (not detected) |
| Butler County Pwsd 1 | 12,000 | 1.42 ppb |
| Butler County Pwsd 3 | 2,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Neelyville Pws | 485 | 2.44 ppb |
| Butler County Pwsd 104 | 475 | 1.49 ppb |
| Qulin Pws | 375 | 1.6 ppb |
| Fisk Pws | 342 | 1.51 ppb |
| Liberty Utilities Lakeland Hts Water Co | 290 | 0 (not detected) |
| W E Sears Youth Center | 150 | 2.32 ppb |
| Liberty Utilities Oakbrier Estates | 143 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Qulin, MO
Look up your address in Butler County Pwsd 2'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 Butler County Pwsd 2 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.