Charity Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.15 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Charity Pws serves about 55 people through 26 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pulaski County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO3036361. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.15 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Charity Pws is 1.15 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.15 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
How Charity Pws 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. Charity Pws's 1.15 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Missouri and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Pulaski County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Charity Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Leonard Wood | 34,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| Pulaski County Pwsd 2 | 8,038 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waynesville Pws | 5,460 | 7.08 ppb |
| St Robert Pws | 5,192 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pulaski County Pwsd 1 | 4,000 | 1.32 ppb |
| Richland Pws | 1,863 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dixon Pws | 1,221 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pulaski County Pwsd 3 | 1,113 | 1.01 ppb |
| Waynesville Northern Heights Est Sub | 961 | 2.26 ppb |
| Crocker Pws | 933 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; St Robert, 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 Charity 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.