Hubert Watson Subdivision, MO

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.

Who runs the water here

Hubert Watson Subdivision serves about 108 people through 38 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Matagorda County, Missouri. EPA system ID: TX1610114; phone on file: 254-355-9124. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.

Every lead result on file

The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hubert Watson Subdivision is 3 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.

How Hubert Watson Subdivision 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. Hubert Watson Subdivision's 3 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Missouri and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).

Next steps for Saint Louis, MO

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Saint Louis, 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 Hubert Watson Subdivision 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.