Oaks Homeowners Assn Water Dist, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Oaks Homeowners Assn Water Dist at a glance
Oaks Homeowners Assn Water Dist serves about 85 people through 34 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Barry County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5036300. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Oaks Homeowners Assn Water Dist's lead record
That is down 1.14 ppb from 1.14 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oaks Homeowners Assn Water Dist is 1.71 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.14 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.14 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.71 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.71 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.97 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. Oaks Homeowners Assn Water Dist's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in Missouri and the 8th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
29 other systems share Barry County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Oaks Homeowners Assn Water Dist. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Monett Pws | 9,789 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cassville Pws | 3,290 | 2.09 ppb |
| Southwest Rural Water District 1 | 2,700 | 1.78 ppb |
| Purdy Pws | 1,100 | 1.21 ppb |
| Seligman Pws | 890 | 0 (not detected) |
| Exeter Pws | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wheaton Pws | 698 | 3.62 ppb |
| Butterfield Pws | 528 | 0.68 ppb |
| Emerald Beach Village Of Pws | 484 | 0.52 ppb |
| Washburn Pws | 448 | 0.52 ppb |
Next steps for Aurora, MO
Look up your address in Oaks Homeowners Assn Water Dist'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 Oaks Homeowners Assn Water Dist 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.