Lakewood Hills Subd, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 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. 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 Hills Subd at a glance
Lakewood Hills Subd serves about 400 people through 114 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Jefferson County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO6036049; phone on file: 417-609-8920. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 9 ppb from 11.1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lakewood Hills Subd is 11.1 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 11.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 11.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.6 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 Hills Subd's 2.1 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Missouri and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Jefferson County
65 other systems share Jefferson County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lakewood Hills Subd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Co Cons Pwsd C 1 | 37,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jefferson County Pwsd 1 | 21,113 | 7.25 ppb |
| Jefferson County Pwsd 3 | 17,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jefferson County Pwsd 2 | 16,548 | 0 (not detected) |
| Festus Pws | 13,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jefferson County Pwsd 10 | 10,000 | 3.86 ppb |
| Jefferson County Pwsd 5 | 8,000 | 1.13 ppb |
| Jefferson County Pwsd 6 | 7,500 | 2.93 ppb |
| Desoto Pws | 6,400 | 1.46 ppb |
| Jefferson County Pwsd 7 | 6,100 | 1.7 ppb |
Next steps for Aurora, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Aurora, 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 Hills Subd 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.