Mo American Pom O Sa Heights Subd, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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 Pom O Sa Heights Subd serves about 119 people through 63 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Benton County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO3036133; 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 Pom O Sa Heights Subd's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1.62 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mo American Pom O Sa Heights Subd is 4.8 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.62 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.62 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.02 ppb |
How Mo American Pom O Sa Heights Subd 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. Mo American Pom O Sa Heights Subd's 2 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Missouri and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Benton County
24 other systems share Benton County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mo American Pom O Sa Heights Subd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Warsaw Pws | 2,402 | 2.56 ppb |
| Cole Camp Pws | 1,150 | 1.11 ppb |
| Lincoln Pws | 1,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sterett Creek Village | 505 | 0.6 ppb |
| Mo American Whitebranch Subd | 450 | 1 ppb |
| Winegars Teal Bend Subd | 400 | 7 ppb |
| Spring Branch Water | 273 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sycamore Valley Subd | 245 | 0.76 ppb |
| Keithley Beach Subd | 240 | 1.74 ppb |
| Blue Branch Improvement Assn Inc | 200 | 1.77 ppb |
What to do in your house
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 Pom O Sa Heights 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.