Cedaridge Estates, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.63 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.
Cedaridge Estates at a glance
Cedaridge Estates serves about 197 people through 78 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Stone County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5036048; phone on file: 417-739-4489. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 3.63 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cedaridge Estates is 3.63 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3.63 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.76 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.76 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2.24 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. Cedaridge Estates's 3.63 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Missouri and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Stone County
87 other systems share Stone County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cedaridge Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mo American Stonebridge Village | 2,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stone County Pwsd 1 | 2,052 | 2.13 ppb |
| Pwsd 2 Of Stone County 265 | 1,535 | 2.59 ppb |
| Crane Pws | 1,495 | 2.59 ppb |
| Mo Ark Water Co | 1,478 | 1.52 ppb |
| Reeds Spring Pws | 1,287 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mo American Ozark Mtn Water Company 2 | 583 | 7 ppb |
| Twin Island Estates | 525 | 4.58 ppb |
| Ocwc Lantern Bay | 502 | 3.54 ppb |
| Galena Pws | 500 | 1.01 ppb |
Next steps for Reeds Spring, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Reeds Spring, 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 Cedaridge Estates 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.