Fore Oaks Estates, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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 Fore Oaks Estates
Fore Oaks Estates serves about 580 people through 232 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Marion County, Missouri. EPA system ID: FL3424644; phone on file: 314-736-4672. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Fore Oaks Estates's lead record
That is down 5.1 ppb from 5.1 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fore Oaks Estates is 5.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.2 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. Fore Oaks Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 25th percentile in Missouri and the 23rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Marion County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fore Oaks Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hannibal Pws | 17,108 | 5.28 ppb |
| Marion County Pwsd 1 | 4,900 | 3.07 ppb |
| Palmyra Pws | 3,595 | 1.13 ppb |
| Sun Ray Estates | 1,460 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tradewinds Village | 1,218 | 0 (not detected) |
| Little Lake Weir Subdivision | 1,138 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ocala Heights S/D | 1,045 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ocklawaha Water Works (2 Wtps) | 965 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sandy Acres | 678 | 1.4 ppb |
| Winding Waters | 608 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Fore Oaks Estates'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 Fore Oaks Estates 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.