Carolina Oaks Plantation, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.51 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.
Carolina Oaks Plantation at a glance
Carolina Oaks Plantation serves about 126 people through 45 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4031320. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Carolina Oaks Plantation's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Carolina Oaks Plantation is 1.7 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.51 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.52 ppb |
How Carolina Oaks Plantation 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. Carolina Oaks Plantation's 0.51 ppb sits at the 41st percentile in Missouri and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Cape Girardeau County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Carolina Oaks Plantation. 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 |
| 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 |
Your move
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 Carolina Oaks Plantation 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.