Cs Winchester Water Company, 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.
Who runs the water here
Cs Winchester Water Company serves about 402 people through 157 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cochise County, Missouri. EPA system ID: AZ0402110; phone on file: 602-698-9786. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Cs Winchester Water Company's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cs Winchester Water Company is 7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 7 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Cs Winchester Water Company 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. Cs Winchester Water Company's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 22nd percentile in Missouri and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
2 other systems share Cochise County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Cs Winchester Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cs Holiday Water Company | 395 | 1 ppb |
| Cs Sunizona Water Company | 136 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Cs Winchester Water Company'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 Cs Winchester Water Company 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.