Fair Play Pws, 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.
About Fair Play Pws
Fair Play Pws serves about 475 people through 198 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 groundwater, in Polk County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5010264; phone on file: 417-654-2518. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Fair Play Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fair Play Pws is 2.73 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2.73 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.73 ppb |
How Fair Play Pws 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. Fair Play Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 23rd percentile in Missouri and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Polk County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fair Play Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Liberty Utilities Bolivar | 11,000 | 1.2 ppb |
| Humansville Pws | 1,048 | 6.94 ppb |
| Pleasant Hope Pws | 614 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bolivar Southtown Utilities Company Inc | 573 | 1.06 ppb |
| Texas Landing Utilities | 420 | 0 (not detected) |
| Morrisville Pws | 400 | 1.27 ppb |
| Silo Ridge | 400 | 2.02 ppb |
| Halfway Pws | 151 | 2.93 ppb |
| Flemington Pws | 124 | 1.57 ppb |
| Lake Meadows Mhp | 100 | 5.68 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Fair Play Pws'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 Fair Play 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.