Frankford Pws, MO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.99 ppb (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 result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Frankford Pws serves about 349 people through 152 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 surface water, in Pike County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO2010288; phone on file: 573-784-2618. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Frankford Pws's lead record
That is down 5.38 ppb from 7.37 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Frankford Pws is 21.7 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.99 ppb |
| 2021 | 7.37 ppb |
| 2021 | 7.37 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.18 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.13 ppb |
| 2017 | 21.7 ppb over 15 |
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. Frankford Pws's 1.99 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Missouri and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Pike County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Frankford Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pike County Pwsd 1 | 7,590 | 1.77 ppb |
| Bowling Green Pws | 4,195 | 2.01 ppb |
| Louisiana Pws | 3,244 | 4.42 ppb |
| Clarksville Pws | 442 | 5.9 ppb |
| Curryville Pws | 203 | 10.1 ppb |
Next steps for Frankford, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Frankford, 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 Frankford 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.