Centertown Pws, MO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.59 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. 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.
About Centertown Pws
Centertown Pws serves about 278 people through 137 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 Cole County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO3010149; phone on file: 573-584-9572. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.19 ppb from 2.78 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Centertown Pws is 19.7 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.59 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.78 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.49 ppb |
| 2019 | 19.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 3.1 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. Centertown Pws's 0.59 ppb sits at the 43rd percentile in Missouri and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Cole County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Centertown Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mo American Jefferson City District | 30,075 | 2 ppb |
| Cole County Pwsd 1 | 16,548 | 5.13 ppb |
| Cole County Pwsd 2 | 13,107 | 8.58 ppb |
| Cole County Pwsd 4 | 7,568 | 8.81 ppb |
| Cole County Pwsd 3 | 2,000 | 1.88 ppb |
| Mo American Wardsville | 1,506 | 2 ppb |
| Russellville Pws | 800 | 1.69 ppb |
| Cole County Pwsd 5 | 350 | 15.1 ppb |
| Mo American Lake Carmel | 215 | 2 ppb |
| Eugene Pws | 125 | 0.78 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Centertown, 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 Centertown Pws 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.