La Belle Pws, MO
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.2 ppb (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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
La Belle Pws at a glance
La Belle Pws serves about 660 people through 298 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Lewis County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO2010436; phone on file: 660-213-3830. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
La Belle Pws's lead record
That is up 7.03 ppb from 3.17 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for La Belle Pws is 16.6 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 10.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 3.17 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.17 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.41 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.41 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.84 ppb |
| 2016 | 16.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 2.66 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. La Belle Pws's 10.2 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Missouri and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lewis County
4 other systems share Lewis County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than La Belle Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Canton Pws | 3,200 | 2.58 ppb |
| Lewis County Pwsd 1 | 1,700 | 1.55 ppb |
| Lagrange Pws | 875 | 1.81 ppb |
| Lewistown Pws | 580 | 4.39 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; La Belle, 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 La Belle 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.