Hide-A-Way Hills Water Company, MO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Hide-A-Way Hills Water Company
Hide-A-Way Hills Water Company serves about 209 people through 79 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Panola County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MS0540029; phone on file: 314-736-4743. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hide-A-Way Hills Water Company is 17 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 9 ppb |
| 2019 | 11.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 9.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 8.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 11.6 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 17 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. Hide-A-Way Hills Water Company's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 15th percentile in Missouri and the 16th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
2 other systems share Panola County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Hide-A-Way Hills Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Enid Shores Dev Water Company | 380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chickasaw Hills Subdivision | 240 | 3.6 ppb |
Next steps for Des Peres, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Des Peres, 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 Hide-A-Way Hills Water Company 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.