Miami Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.17 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
About Miami Pws
Miami Pws serves about 140 people through 60 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Saline County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO2010520; phone on file: 660-852-3349. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.04 ppb from 2.21 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Miami Pws is 9.4 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.17 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.21 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.21 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.21 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.73 ppb |
| 2020 | 5.73 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.56 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.56 ppb |
| 2016 | 9.4 ppb |
How Miami Pws 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. Miami Pws's 1.17 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Missouri and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Saline County
10 other systems share Saline County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Miami Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Marshall Pws | 12,934 | 3.76 ppb |
| Saline County Pwsd 3 | 3,000 | 1.03 ppb |
| Slater Pws | 1,835 | 5.5 ppb |
| Sweet Springs Pws | 1,309 | 2.58 ppb |
| Saline County Pwsd 2 | 883 | 1.24 ppb |
| Saline County Pwsd 1 | 480 | 14.5 ppb |
| Arrow Rock Pws | 235 | 1.65 ppb |
| Malta Bend Pws | 200 | 2.28 ppb |
| Nelson Pws | 158 | 0.55 ppb |
| Gilliam Pws | 125 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Miami, 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 Miami Pws 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.