Canebrake Utility Assoc Inc, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Canebrake Utility Assoc Inc
Canebrake Utility Assoc Inc serves about 2,619 people through 992 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lamar County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MS0370016; phone on file: 314-736-4743. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 3.3 ppb from 4.6 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Canebrake Utility Assoc Inc is 4.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 ppb |
Against other Missouri systems
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. Canebrake Utility Assoc Inc's 1.3 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in Missouri and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Des Peres, 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 Canebrake Utility Assoc Inc 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.