Drexel Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.13 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.
About Drexel Pws
Drexel Pws serves about 965 people through 435 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 Cass County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO1010225; phone on file: 816-619-2323. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Drexel Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (1.23 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Drexel Pws is 2.14 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.13 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.23 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.14 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.14 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.28 ppb |
Against other Missouri systems
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. Drexel Pws's 1.13 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Missouri and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
29 other systems share Cass County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Drexel Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Belton Pws | 23,598 | 0 (not detected) |
| Raymore Pws | 21,517 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harrisonville Pws | 10,250 | 2.41 ppb |
| Pleasant Hill Pws | 8,262 | 0 (not detected) |
| Peculiar Pws | 6,226 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cass County Pwsd 9 | 6,063 | 1.01 ppb |
| Cass County Pwsd 2 | 4,650 | 4.7 ppb |
| Cass County Pwsd 7 | 4,143 | 2.89 ppb |
| Cass County Pwsd 3 | 3,225 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cass County Pwsd 10 | 3,068 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Drexel, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Drexel, 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 Drexel 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.