Camden County Pwsd 4 Horseshoe Bend, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.71 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 Camden County Pwsd 4 Horseshoe Bend
Camden County Pwsd 4 Horseshoe Bend serves about 7,912 people through 2,346 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized 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: MO3021377; phone on file: 573-365-6792. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (1.51 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Camden County Pwsd 4 Horseshoe Bend is 2.18 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.71 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.51 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.51 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.18 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.18 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 4 Horseshoe Bend's 1.71 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Missouri and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
61 other systems share Camden County; 28 of them have a higher latest lead result than Camden County Pwsd 4 Horseshoe Bend. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| 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 3 | 1,650 | 4.62 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 Lake Ozark, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lake Ozark, 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 4 Horseshoe Bend 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.