Cape Perry County Pwsd 1 South, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.32 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Cape Perry County Pwsd 1 South at a glance
Cape Perry County Pwsd 1 South serves about 8,545 people through 2,992 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 Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4024096; phone on file: 573-243-7111. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.07 ppb from 5.39 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cape Perry County Pwsd 1 South is 5.39 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.32 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.39 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.76 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.46 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. Cape Perry County Pwsd 1 South's 2.32 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Missouri and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Cape Girardeau County
20 other systems share Cape Girardeau County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cape Perry County Pwsd 1 South. 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 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 |
| Cape Girardeau County Pwsd 5 | 485 | 0.93 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jackson, 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 Perry County Pwsd 1 South 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.