Butterfield Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.68 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.
Butterfield Pws at a glance
Butterfield Pws serves about 528 people through 173 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 Barry County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5010119. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Butterfield Pws's lead record
That is down 1.12 ppb from 1.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Butterfield Pws is 1.8 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.68 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.2 ppb |
How Butterfield 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. Butterfield Pws's 0.68 ppb sits at the 45th percentile in Missouri and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Barry County
29 other systems share Barry County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Butterfield Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Monett Pws | 9,789 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cassville Pws | 3,290 | 2.09 ppb |
| Southwest Rural Water District 1 | 2,700 | 1.78 ppb |
| Purdy Pws | 1,100 | 1.21 ppb |
| Seligman Pws | 890 | 0 (not detected) |
| Exeter Pws | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wheaton Pws | 698 | 3.62 ppb |
| Emerald Beach Village Of Pws | 484 | 0.52 ppb |
| Washburn Pws | 448 | 0.52 ppb |
| Mo American Ozark Mtn Water Company 1 | 350 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cassville, 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 Butterfield 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.