Fisk Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.51 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. 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 Fisk Pws
Fisk Pws serves about 342 people through 172 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 Butler County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4010278; phone on file: 573-967-3810. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.51 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fisk Pws is 2.1 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.51 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.74 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.74 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.1 ppb |
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. Fisk Pws's 1.51 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in Missouri and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Butler County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fisk Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Poplar Bluff Pws | 17,043 | 0 (not detected) |
| Butler County Pwsd 1 | 12,000 | 1.42 ppb |
| Butler County Pwsd 3 | 2,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Butler County Pwsd 2 | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Neelyville Pws | 485 | 2.44 ppb |
| Butler County Pwsd 104 | 475 | 1.49 ppb |
| Qulin Pws | 375 | 1.6 ppb |
| Liberty Utilities Lakeland Hts Water Co | 290 | 0 (not detected) |
| W E Sears Youth Center | 150 | 2.32 ppb |
| Liberty Utilities Oakbrier Estates | 143 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Fisk, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fisk, 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 Fisk 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.