Morgan County Pwsd 3, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Morgan County Pwsd 3 serves about 80 people through 48 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Morgan County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5031454; phone on file: 573-832-8960. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.74 ppb from 1.74 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Morgan County Pwsd 3 is 1.9 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.74 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.74 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.9 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. Morgan County Pwsd 3's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 6th percentile in Missouri and the 7th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Morgan County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Morgan County Pwsd 3. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Versailles Pws | 2,539 | 1.27 ppb |
| Morgan County Pwsd # 2 | 1,298 | 1.91 ppb |
| Stover Pws | 1,094 | 1.81 ppb |
| Laurie Pws | 990 | 5.03 ppb |
| Millstone Luxury Condominiums | 400 | 0.53 ppb |
| Timberlake Master Assn Inc | 300 | 0.83 ppb |
| Blue Anchor Bay Condominiums | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Barnett Pws | 207 | 3.42 ppb |
| Syracuse Pws | 172 | 5.6 ppb |
| 10 4 Water System | 160 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Stover, MO
Look up your address in Morgan County Pwsd 3's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Morgan County Pwsd 3 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.