Camden County Pwsd 3, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.62 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.
Camden County Pwsd 3 at a glance
Camden County Pwsd 3 serves about 1,650 people through 430 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 Camden County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5021438; phone on file: 660-851-2462. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (5.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Camden County Pwsd 3 is 5.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.62 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.71 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.71 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Camden County Pwsd 3's 4.62 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Missouri and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
61 other systems share Camden County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Camden County Pwsd 3. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Camden County Pwsd 4 Horseshoe Bend | 7,912 | 1.71 ppb |
| Camdenton Pws | 3,960 | 1.86 ppb |
| Osage Beach East Pws | 2,611 | 2.26 ppb |
| Camden County Pwsd #4 Shawnee Bend | 2,065 | 7.62 ppb |
| Osage Beach West Pws | 1,700 | 2.92 ppb |
| Camden County Pwsd 2 | 1,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camden County Pwsd 1 | 1,300 | 1.83 ppb |
| Encounter Cove Camp & Conference Center | 1,052 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sweet Pea Pws | 980 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sunrise Beach Village Of Pws | 930 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Camdenton, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Camdenton, 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 Camden County Pwsd 3 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.