Lakewood Environmental, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7 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.
Lakewood Environmental at a glance
Lakewood Environmental serves about 982 people through 372 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Harrison County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MS0240052; phone on file: 314-736-4743. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 6 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lakewood Environmental is 7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
Against other Missouri systems
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. Lakewood Environmental's 7 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Missouri and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Harrison County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lakewood Environmental. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Harrison County Pwsd 2 | 3,740 | 1.34 ppb |
| Bethany Pws | 3,292 | 1.72 ppb |
| Woolmarket Village Estates | 2,910 | 1 ppb |
| Robinwood Forest Utility Inc | 1,275 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harrison County Pwsd 1 | 823 | 0 (not detected) |
| Palmer Creek Utility Assc, Inc | 570 | 0.3 ppb |
| Deerwood Utilities | 404 | 0.7 ppb |
| Pass Christian Isles | 399 | 4 ppb |
| Gilman City Pws | 380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ridgeway Pws | 372 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Des Peres, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Des Peres, 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 Lakewood Environmental 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.