Meadowview Estates, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.86 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Meadowview Estates serves about 162 people through 54 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Austin County, Missouri. EPA system ID: TX0080051; 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
Against the period ending 2024 (0.55 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Meadowview Estates is 4.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.86 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.55 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.4 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. Meadowview Estates's 0.86 ppb sits at the 47th percentile in Missouri and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Austin County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Meadowview Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Meadowview Estates Ii | 144 | 0 (not detected) |
| Settlers Meadows Water System | 138 | 0.52 ppb |
| Settlers Crossing Water System 2 | 135 | 0.47 ppb |
| Settlers Estates Sec Ii | 132 | 1.43 ppb |
| Settlers Crossing Water System | 123 | 0.33 ppb |
| Lakeside Estates Water System | 78 | 6.4 ppb |
| Hillside Estates Water System | 72 | 0.3 ppb |
Next steps for Saint Louis, MO
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 Meadowview Estates 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.