Liberty Utilities Whispering Hills Subd, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Liberty Utilities Whispering Hills Subd
Liberty Utilities Whispering Hills Subd serves about 150 people through 60 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Wayne County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4036095; phone on file: 417-609-8920. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Liberty Utilities Whispering Hills Subd is 9.6 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 4.13 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.13 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.13 ppb |
| 2016 | 9.6 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. Liberty Utilities Whispering Hills Subd's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in Missouri and the 13th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Wayne County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Liberty Utilities Whispering Hills Subd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Piedmont Pws | 1,987 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wayne & Butler County Pwsd 4 | 1,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wayne County Pwsd 2 | 950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greenville Pws | 497 | 0 (not detected) |
| Community Water System | 378 | 6.15 ppb |
| Williamsville Pws | 342 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wayne County Pwsd 3 | 300 | 7.1 ppb |
| Ridgetop Waterworks Corp Subdivision | 227 | 1.77 ppb |
| Lost Creek Water Company | 133 | 0.63 ppb |
| Mill Spring Pws | 112 | 1.1 ppb |
Next steps for Aurora, MO
Look up your address in Liberty Utilities Whispering Hills Subd's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Liberty Utilities Whispering 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.