Country Meadows Estates, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.75 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Country Meadows Estates at a glance
Country Meadows Estates serves about 120 people through 44 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Christian County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5039093; phone on file: 417-249-1402. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.95 ppb from 9.7 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Country Meadows Estates is 9.7 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 7.75 ppb |
| 2025 | 9.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 9.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 8.33 ppb |
| 2020 | 8.33 ppb |
| 2019 | 7.74 ppb |
| 2017 | 7.74 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. Country Meadows Estates's 7.75 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Missouri and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
28 other systems share Christian County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Country Meadows Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Nixa Pws | 24,532 | 1.12 ppb |
| Ozark Pws | 23,248 | 1.21 ppb |
| Nixa Pws Rde | 2,900 | 1.64 ppb |
| Clever Pws | 2,139 | 2.14 ppb |
| Sparta Pws | 1,946 | 0 (not detected) |
| Highlandville Pws | 1,417 | 2.13 ppb |
| Billings Pws | 1,035 | 1.17 ppb |
| Mo American Saddlebrooke Village Of | 440 | 0 (not detected) |
| Christian County Pwsd 1 | 325 | 0.68 ppb |
| Liberty Utilities Midland | 240 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kimberling City, 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 Country Meadows Estates 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.