Cedar Hill Apts, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Cedar Hill Apts serves about 102 people through 34 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Christian County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5079527; phone on file: 417-983-0074. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Cedar Hill Apts's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0.67 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cedar Hill Apts is 4.49 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0.67 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.49 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.49 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Cedar Hill Apts 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. Cedar Hill Apts's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th percentile in Missouri and the 10th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
28 other systems share Christian County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cedar Hill Apts. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Nixa Pws | 24,532 | 1.12 ppb |
| Ozark Pws | 23,248 | 1.21 ppb |
| Nixa Pws Rde | 2,900 | 1.64 ppb |
| Clever Pws | 2,139 | 2.14 ppb |
| Sparta Pws | 1,946 | 0 (not detected) |
| Highlandville Pws | 1,417 | 2.13 ppb |
| Billings Pws | 1,035 | 1.17 ppb |
| Mo American Saddlebrooke Village Of | 440 | 0 (not detected) |
| Christian County Pwsd 1 | 325 | 0.68 ppb |
| Liberty Utilities Midland | 240 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Ozark, MO
Look up your address in Cedar Hill Apts's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Cedar Hill Apts 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.