Cape Girardeau County Pwsd 5, MO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.93 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Cape Girardeau County Pwsd 5 at a glance
Cape Girardeau County Pwsd 5 serves about 485 people through 213 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4021532; phone on file: 573-334-0172. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.79 ppb from 3.72 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cape Girardeau County Pwsd 5 is 17.5 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.93 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.72 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.72 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.24 ppb |
| 2018 | 11.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 6.69 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.05 ppb |
| 2016 | 17.5 ppb over 15 |
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. Cape Girardeau County Pwsd 5's 0.93 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in Missouri and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Cape Girardeau County
20 other systems share Cape Girardeau County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cape Girardeau County Pwsd 5. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cape Girardeau Pws | 39,941 | 3.57 ppb |
| Jackson Pws | 15,000 | 1.03 ppb |
| Cape Perry County Pwsd 1 South | 8,545 | 2.32 ppb |
| Cape Girardeau County Pwsd 2 | 2,913 | 5.09 ppb |
| Cape Girardeau County Pwsd 4 | 1,743 | 1.1 ppb |
| Hillcrest Utility Operating Company Inc | 700 | 1.8 ppb |
| Delta Pws | 480 | 2.29 ppb |
| Parkwood Estates Llc | 350 | 2.16 ppb |
| Whitewater Allenville Pws | 200 | 2.33 ppb |
| Windwood Estates Subd | 170 | 0.53 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cape Girardeau, 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 Cape Girardeau County Pwsd 5 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.