Mountain View Pws, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Mountain View Pws at a glance
Mountain View Pws serves about 2,791 people through 1,192 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Howell County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4010551; phone on file: 417-934-2601. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Mountain View Pws's lead record
That is down 1.76 ppb from 1.76 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mountain View Pws is 5.15 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.76 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.76 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.15 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.15 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.81 ppb |
How Mountain View 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. Mountain View Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 35th percentile in Missouri and the 32nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Howell County
8 other systems share Howell County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mountain View Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| West Plains Pws | 12,864 | 1.28 ppb |
| Willow Springs Pws | 2,250 | 1.37 ppb |
| Howell Oregon County Pwsd 2 North | 1,768 | 0 (not detected) |
| Howell County Pwsd 3 | 1,500 | 1.64 ppb |
| Howell Oregon 2 West | 1,210 | 1.37 ppb |
| Howell County Pwsd 1 | 850 | 0 (not detected) |
| Howell Oregon County Pwsd 2 South | 182 | 0.64 ppb |
| Henrys Mhp | 100 | 1.23 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Mountain View 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 Mountain View 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.