Jamestown Pws, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Jamestown Pws at a glance
Jamestown Pws serves about 369 people through 183 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Moniteau County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO3010407; phone on file: 660-849-2339. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Jamestown Pws is 1.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.3 ppb |
How Jamestown 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. Jamestown Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 21st percentile in Missouri and the 20th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Moniteau County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Jamestown Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| California Pws | 4,423 | 2.18 ppb |
| Tipton Pws | 2,861 | 1.4 ppb |
| Moniteau County Pwsd 2 | 1,400 | 1.9 ppb |
| Clarksburg Pws | 353 | 1.37 ppb |
| Mo American Hickory Hills | 125 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Jamestown, MO
Look up your address in Jamestown 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 Jamestown 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.