Camden County Pwsd #4 Shawnee Bend, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.62 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 #4 Shawnee Bend at a glance
Camden County Pwsd #4 Shawnee Bend serves about 2,065 people through 901 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: MO3031201; phone on file: 573-365-6792. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Camden County Pwsd #4 Shawnee Bend's lead record
That is up 6.2 ppb from 1.42 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Camden County Pwsd #4 Shawnee Bend is 7.62 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 7.62 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.42 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.42 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.42 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.86 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.86 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.86 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.73 ppb |
How Camden County Pwsd #4 Shawnee Bend 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. Camden County Pwsd #4 Shawnee Bend's 7.62 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Missouri and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Camden County
61 other systems share Camden County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Camden County Pwsd #4 Shawnee Bend. 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 |
| 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) |
What to do in your house
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 Shawnee 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.