Joyce Rentals, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.46 ppb (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. 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.
Joyce Rentals at a glance
Joyce Rentals serves about 70 people through 22 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Webster County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5071459; phone on file: 417-859-7172. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Joyce Rentals's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1.93 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Joyce Rentals is 2.46 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.46 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.93 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.93 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.93 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.58 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.58 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.58 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.76 ppb |
How Joyce Rentals 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. Joyce Rentals's 2.46 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Missouri and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Webster County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Joyce Rentals. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Marshfield Pws | 7,425 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rogersville Pws | 5,602 | 1.77 ppb |
| Seymour Pws | 1,943 | 6.42 ppb |
| Ozark Correctional Center | 900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fordland Pws | 800 | 3.55 ppb |
| Niangua Pws | 411 | 1.1 ppb |
| Diggins Pws | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shady Oak Rv & Tiny Home Park | 50 | 5.26 ppb |
| Oak Ridge Estates | 25 | 6.32 ppb |
| Lazy J Rv Park | 20 | 1.99 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Marshfield, 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 Joyce Rentals 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.