Clear Water Acres Subd, MO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.24 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Clear Water Acres Subd serves about 175 people through 99 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Taney County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5036191; phone on file: 815-915-3193. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Clear Water Acres Subd's lead record
That is up 2.24 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Clear Water Acres Subd is 18.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.24 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 18.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 4.4 ppb |
How Clear Water Acres Subd 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. Clear Water Acres Subd's 2.24 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Missouri and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
51 other systems share Taney County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Clear Water Acres Subd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Branson Pws | 12,640 | 2.92 ppb |
| Mo American Tri State | 8,680 | 2 ppb |
| Taney County Pwsd 3 | 6,000 | 3.87 ppb |
| Taney County Pwsd 2 | 5,500 | 1.92 ppb |
| Hollister Pws | 4,426 | 0 (not detected) |
| Forsyth Pws | 2,730 | 2.75 ppb |
| Holiday Hills Resort | 2,065 | 3.83 ppb |
| Taney County Pwsd 1 | 2,000 | 1.17 ppb |
| Merriam Woods Pws | 1,839 | 5 ppb |
| College Of The Ozarks | 1,700 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Ridgedale, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ridgedale, 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 Clear Water Acres Subd 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.