Kingdom City Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.66 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Kingdom City Pws at a glance
Kingdom City Pws serves about 128 people through 107 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 Callaway County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO3010424; phone on file: 573-592-0588. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kingdom City Pws is 4.6 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.66 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2.97 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.97 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.02 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.02 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.6 ppb |
How Kingdom City 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. Kingdom City Pws's 0.66 ppb sits at the 44th percentile in Missouri and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Callaway County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kingdom City Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Callaway 2 Water District | 13,080 | 1.77 ppb |
| Fulton Pws | 12,600 | 3.98 ppb |
| Callaway County Pwsd 1 | 9,840 | 4.06 ppb |
| Auxvasse Pws | 1,001 | 3.03 ppb |
| New Bloomfield Pws | 669 | 2.54 ppb |
| Seges Mhp | 285 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mokane Pws | 208 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mo American Jefferson City North | 95 | 2 ppb |
| Wildwood Lot Owners Assn | 78 | 2.07 ppb |
Next steps for Kingdom City, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kingdom City, 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 Kingdom City 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.