Chillicothe Municipal Utilities Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.12 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.
Chillicothe Municipal Utilities Pws at a glance
Chillicothe Municipal Utilities Pws serves about 10,187 people through 4,075 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Livingston County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO2010162; phone on file: 660-646-1664. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Chillicothe Municipal Utilities Pws's lead record
That is up 1.12 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Chillicothe Municipal Utilities Pws is 1.64 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.12 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.64 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.64 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.64 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.23 ppb |
How Chillicothe Municipal Utilities 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. Chillicothe Municipal Utilities Pws's 1.12 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Missouri and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Livingston County
6 other systems share Livingston County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Chillicothe Municipal Utilities Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Livingston County Pwsd 2 | 2,215 | 0 (not detected) |
| Livingston County Pwsd 3 East | 2,087 | 0 (not detected) |
| Linn Livingston County Pwsd 3 | 1,350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Livingston County Pwsd 1 | 1,320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wheeling Pws | 223 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chula Pws | 202 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Chillicothe, 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 Chillicothe Municipal Utilities 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.