Green City Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.42 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.
Green City Pws at a glance
Green City Pws serves about 578 people through 305 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 surface water, in Sullivan County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO2010329; phone on file: 660-874-4219. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Green City Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (1.42 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Green City Pws is 2.42 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.42 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.42 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.42 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.42 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.24 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.24 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.24 ppb |
How Green City 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. Green City Pws's 2.42 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Missouri and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Sullivan County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Green City Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sullivan County Pwsd 1 | 4,412 | 1.14 ppb |
| Milan Pws | 1,759 | 1.05 ppb |
| Green Castle Pws | 212 | 9.9 ppb |
| Newtown Pws | 109 | 0 (not detected) |
| Humphreys Pws | 98 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Central Mo Regional Water Com | 25 | - |
Next steps for Green City, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Green City, 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 Green City 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.