Newton Co Pwsd 1, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.69 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.
Newton Co Pwsd 1 at a glance
Newton Co Pwsd 1 serves about 450 people through 189 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 Newton County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5024423; phone on file: 417-312-3787. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Newton Co Pwsd 1 is 0.69 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.69 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0.64 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.64 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.68 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.68 ppb |
How Newton Co Pwsd 1 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. Newton Co Pwsd 1's 0.69 ppb sits at the 45th percentile in Missouri and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Newton County
13 other systems share Newton County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Newton Co Pwsd 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Neosho Pws | 12,157 | 4.89 ppb |
| Seneca Pws | 2,390 | 2.07 ppb |
| Granby Pws | 2,034 | 2.38 ppb |
| Diamond Pws | 926 | 1.39 ppb |
| Fairview Pws | 380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Redings Mill Pws | 163 | 4.4 ppb |
| Stella Pws | 158 | 2.9 ppb |
| Big Valley Park Mhp | 158 | 0.53 ppb |
| Timberlost Mhp | 150 | 1.44 ppb |
| 43 Mobile Home & Rv Park | 137 | 2.81 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stark City, 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 Newton Co Pwsd 1 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.