Moscow Mills Pws, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
Moscow Mills Pws at a glance
Moscow Mills Pws serves about 4,500 people through 1,674 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lincoln County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO6010547; phone on file: 606-775-0568. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Moscow Mills Pws's lead record
That is down 1.65 ppb from 1.65 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Moscow Mills Pws is 1.65 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.65 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Moscow Mills 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. Moscow Mills Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 37th percentile in Missouri and the 34th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Lincoln County
30 other systems share Lincoln County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Moscow Mills Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Troy Pws | 15,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| Lincoln County Pwsd 1 | 14,000 | 3.51 ppb |
| Elsberry Pws | 2,076 | 0 (not detected) |
| Winfield Pws | 1,489 | 1.29 ppb |
| Lincoln County Pwsd 2 | 1,005 | 5.24 ppb |
| Hawk Point Pws | 945 | 3.45 ppb |
| Quail Run Mhp | 897 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glen Meadows | 650 | 0 (not detected) |
| Majestic Lakes | 512 | 1.52 ppb |
| Mo American Anna Meadows | 412 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Moscow Mills Pws'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 Moscow Mills 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.