New Hope Residential Care Inc, MO
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 13.4 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
New Hope Residential Care Inc serves about 25 people through 2 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in St. Francois County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4071423; phone on file: 573-431-7336. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 9.63 ppb from 3.77 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for New Hope Residential Care Inc is 13.4 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 13.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 3.77 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.77 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.63 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
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. New Hope Residential Care Inc's 13.4 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Missouri and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share St. Francois County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than New Hope Residential Care Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Farmington Pws | 18,217 | 4.82 ppb |
| Park Hills Pws | 8,587 | 8.6 ppb |
| Desloge Pws | 5,034 | 3.69 ppb |
| Bonne Terre Pws | 3,537 | 12.9 ppb |
| Bonne Terre Prison | 3,500 | 8.07 ppb |
| Farmington Correctional Center | 3,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Terre Du Lac | 3,200 | 3.9 ppb |
| Bismarck Pws | 1,475 | 1.9 ppb |
| Leadwood Pws | 1,200 | 1.11 ppb |
| St Francois County Pwsd 2 | 850 | 1.51 ppb |
Next steps for Park Hills, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Park Hills, 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 New Hope Residential Care Inc 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.