Daviess County Pwsd 3, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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
Daviess County Pwsd 3 serves about 400 people through 680 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Daviess County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO1036130; phone on file: 660-663-2771. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Daviess County Pwsd 3 is 1.2 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.2 ppb |
How Daviess County Pwsd 3 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. Daviess County Pwsd 3's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 21st 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.
Other water systems in Daviess County
8 other systems share Daviess County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Daviess County Pwsd 3. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Daviess County Pwsd 2 | 2,448 | 1.71 ppb |
| Daviess County Pwsd 1 | 2,165 | 1.45 ppb |
| Gallatin Pws | 1,821 | 2.26 ppb |
| Jamesport Pws | 567 | 4.31 ppb |
| Pattonsburg Pws | 315 | 0 (not detected) |
| Altamont Pws | 207 | 2.41 ppb |
| Coffey Pws | 166 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jameson | 121 | - |
Your move
Look up your address in Daviess County Pwsd 3'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 Daviess County Pwsd 3 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.