City Utilities Of Springfield, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.1 ppb (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. 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.
City Utilities Of Springfield at a glance
City Utilities Of Springfield serves about 210,898 people through 87,809 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Greene County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5010754; phone on file: 417-831-8881. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.2 ppb from 3.9 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Utilities Of Springfield is 8.2 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 8.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.3 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. City Utilities Of Springfield's 5.1 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Missouri and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Greene County
28 other systems share Greene County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Utilities Of Springfield. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Republic Pws | 16,100 | 1.65 ppb |
| Greene County Pwsd 1 | 9,168 | 3.52 ppb |
| Willard Pws | 8,400 | 3.92 ppb |
| Strafford Pws | 2,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ash Grove Pws | 1,512 | 4.4 ppb |
| Greene County Pwsd 5 | 1,500 | 3.68 ppb |
| Walnut Grove Pws | 762 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greene County Pwsd 6 | 485 | 2.35 ppb |
| The Willows Utility Company | 315 | 0.99 ppb |
| Silver Bell Mhp | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Springfield, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Springfield, 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 City Utilities Of Springfield 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.