Higginsville Pws, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Higginsville Pws at a glance
Higginsville Pws serves about 4,800 people through 2,018 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Lafayette County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO1010363; phone on file: 660-584-2106. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.26 ppb from 1.26 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Higginsville Pws is 1.56 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.26 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.26 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.56 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.56 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.35 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.35 ppb |
How Higginsville 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. Higginsville Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 37th percentile in Missouri and the 35th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Lafayette County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Higginsville Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lafayette County Pwsd 1 | 8,250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Odessa Pws | 5,202 | 3.33 ppb |
| Lexington Pws | 4,729 | 2.02 ppb |
| Concordia Pws | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wellsgate | 1,447 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waverly Pws | 900 | 4.73 ppb |
| Wellington Pws | 812 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alma Pws | 500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Lafayette Pws | 327 | 0 (not detected) |
| Twelve Oaks Water System | 314 | 0.4 ppb |
Next steps for Higginsville, MO
Look up your address in Higginsville Pws'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 Higginsville 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.