Chula Pws, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
About Chula Pws
Chula Pws serves about 202 people through 99 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 Livingston County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO2010163; phone on file: 661-646-8731. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Chula Pws's lead record
That is down 5.6 ppb from 5.6 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Chula Pws is 5.6 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0.54 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.54 ppb |
How Chula 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. Chula Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in Missouri and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Livingston County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Chula Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Chillicothe Municipal Utilities Pws | 10,187 | 1.12 ppb |
| 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) |
Your move
Look up your address in Chula Pws'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 Chula 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.