Lost Creek Water Company, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.63 ppb (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. 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.
Lost Creek Water Company at a glance
Lost Creek Water Company serves about 133 people through 53 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: MO4036306; phone on file: 573-321-0875. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lost Creek Water Company's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lost Creek Water Company is 0.63 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.63 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Lost Creek Water Company 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. Lost Creek Water Company's 0.63 ppb sits at the 44th percentile in Missouri and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Wayne County
14 other systems share Wayne County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lost Creek Water Company. 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 |
| Liberty Utilities Whispering Hills Subd | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mill Spring Pws | 112 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wappapello, 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 Lost Creek Water Company 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.