Gallatin Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.26 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Gallatin Pws at a glance
Gallatin Pws serves about 1,821 people through 812 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Daviess County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO1010299; phone on file: 660-663-2011. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.11 ppb from 4.37 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gallatin Pws is 15 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.26 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.37 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.37 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.43 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.43 ppb |
| 2016 | 15 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 15 ppb over 10 |
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. Gallatin Pws's 2.26 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Missouri and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Daviess County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gallatin Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Daviess County Pwsd 2 | 2,448 | 1.71 ppb |
| Daviess County Pwsd 1 | 2,165 | 1.45 ppb |
| Jamesport Pws | 567 | 4.31 ppb |
| Daviess County Pwsd 3 | 400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pattonsburg Pws | 315 | 0 (not detected) |
| Altamont Pws | 207 | 2.41 ppb |
| Coffey Pws | 166 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jameson | 121 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gallatin, 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 Gallatin 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.