Live Oak Hills Subdivision, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.36 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.
Live Oak Hills Subdivision at a glance
Live Oak Hills Subdivision serves about 65 people through 28 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Mcculloch County, Missouri. EPA system ID: TX1540012; phone on file: 254-355-9124. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Live Oak Hills Subdivision is 3.36 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.36 ppb |
How Live Oak Hills Subdivision 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. Live Oak Hills Subdivision's 3.36 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Missouri and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Saint Louis, 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 Live Oak Hills Subdivision 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.