Mo American Lakewood Manor Subd, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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
Mo American Lakewood Manor Subd serves about 50 people through 36 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Barry County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5036020; phone on file: 417-680-0314. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Mo American Lakewood Manor Subd's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mo American Lakewood Manor Subd is 3 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 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. Mo American Lakewood Manor Subd's 3 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Missouri and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Barry County
29 other systems share Barry County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mo American Lakewood Manor Subd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Monett Pws | 9,789 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cassville Pws | 3,290 | 2.09 ppb |
| Southwest Rural Water District 1 | 2,700 | 1.78 ppb |
| Purdy Pws | 1,100 | 1.21 ppb |
| Seligman Pws | 890 | 0 (not detected) |
| Exeter Pws | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wheaton Pws | 698 | 3.62 ppb |
| Butterfield Pws | 528 | 0.68 ppb |
| Emerald Beach Village Of Pws | 484 | 0.52 ppb |
| Washburn Pws | 448 | 0.52 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Joplin, 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 Mo American Lakewood Manor Subd 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.