Crocker Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
About Crocker Pws
Crocker Pws serves about 933 people through 433 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Pulaski County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO3010196; phone on file: 573-736-5327. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Crocker Pws's lead record
That is up 2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Crocker Pws is 2.3 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.61 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.61 ppb |
How Crocker 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. Crocker Pws's 2 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Missouri and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Pulaski County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Crocker Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Leonard Wood | 34,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| Pulaski County Pwsd 2 | 8,038 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waynesville Pws | 5,460 | 7.08 ppb |
| St Robert Pws | 5,192 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pulaski County Pwsd 1 | 4,000 | 1.32 ppb |
| Richland Pws | 1,863 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dixon Pws | 1,221 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pulaski County Pwsd 3 | 1,113 | 1.01 ppb |
| Waynesville Northern Heights Est Sub | 961 | 2.26 ppb |
| Ridge Creek Water Company Llc | 450 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Crocker, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Crocker, 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 Crocker 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.