Deepwater Pws, MO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.49 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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
Deepwater Pws serves about 433 people through 165 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 Henry County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO1010205; phone on file: 660-696-2310. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.49 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Deepwater Pws is 53.5 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.49 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.35 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 53.5 ppb over 15 |
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. Deepwater Pws's 1.49 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in Missouri and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Henry County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Deepwater Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Henry County Water Company | 11,373 | 3.37 ppb |
| Henry County Pwsd 3 | 2,993 | 0 (not detected) |
| Windsor Pws | 2,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Henry County Pwsd 4 | 1,140 | 1.23 ppb |
| Urich Pws | 505 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montrose Pws | 384 | 0 (not detected) |
| Calhoun Pws | 324 | 0 (not detected) |
| Henry County Pwsd 1 | 258 | 2.44 ppb |
| Blairstown Pws | 123 | 0.72 ppb |
| Oakwood Water Assn | 28 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Deepwater, 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 Deepwater 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.