Newburg Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.59 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.
About Newburg Pws
Newburg Pws serves about 324 people through 196 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Phelps County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO3010887; phone on file: 573-456-2002. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.34 ppb from 1.93 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Newburg Pws is 12.8 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.59 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.93 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.93 ppb |
| 2022 | 6.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 12.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 8.91 ppb |
| 2021 | 12.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 3.58 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.58 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.58 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.58 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.13 ppb |
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. Newburg Pws's 0.59 ppb sits at the 43rd percentile in Missouri and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Phelps County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Newburg Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rolla Pws | 20,800 | 3.91 ppb |
| St James Pws | 3,935 | 0 (not detected) |
| Phelps County Pwsd 2 South | 1,763 | 2.23 ppb |
| Phelps County Pwsd 1 | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Phelps County Pwsd 2 North | 523 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kvc | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gladlo Water & Sewer Inc | 182 | 0.51 ppb |
| Lakeside Community Inc | 160 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stately Mansion Mobile Villa | 100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Twmp Llc | 100 | 1.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Newburg, 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 Newburg 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.