Elm Hills Utility Operating Company Inc, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
About Elm Hills Utility Operating Company Inc
Elm Hills Utility Operating Company Inc serves about 154 people through 61 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pettis County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO3048155; phone on file: 314-464-3964. 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 down 1.19 ppb from 1.19 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Elm Hills Utility Operating Company Inc is 1.19 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.19 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.19 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Elm Hills Utility Operating Company Inc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 12th percentile in Missouri and the 13th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
18 other systems share Pettis County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Elm Hills Utility Operating Company Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sedalia Pws | 21,725 | 1.72 ppb |
| La Monte Pws | 1,120 | 5.51 ppb |
| Mo American Maplewood Subdivision | 1,008 | 2 ppb |
| Green Ridge Pws | 595 | 1.99 ppb |
| Mo American Smithton | 500 | 1 ppb |
| Southgate Subdivision | 216 | 14.8 ppb |
| Houstonia Pws | 198 | 2.53 ppb |
| Hughesville Pws | 158 | 5.5 ppb |
| Mo American Monsees Lake Estates | 155 | 12 ppb |
| Southern Hills Water Co | 144 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Elm Hills Utility Operating Company Inc'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 Elm Hills Utility Operating Company Inc 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.