Melody Manor Subdivision, MO
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11.9 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Melody Manor Subdivision at a glance
Melody Manor Subdivision serves about 40 people through 27 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Stone County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5031145; phone on file: 417-331-3993. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 11.9 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Melody Manor Subdivision is 11.9 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 11.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.45 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.45 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Melody Manor Subdivision's 11.9 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Missouri and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
87 other systems share Stone County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Melody Manor Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mo American Stonebridge Village | 2,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stone County Pwsd 1 | 2,052 | 2.13 ppb |
| Pwsd 2 Of Stone County 265 | 1,535 | 2.59 ppb |
| Crane Pws | 1,495 | 2.59 ppb |
| Mo Ark Water Co | 1,478 | 1.52 ppb |
| Reeds Spring Pws | 1,287 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mo American Ozark Mtn Water Company 2 | 583 | 7 ppb |
| Twin Island Estates | 525 | 4.58 ppb |
| Ocwc Lantern Bay | 502 | 3.54 ppb |
| Galena Pws | 500 | 1.01 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Reeds Springs, 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 Melody Manor 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.