Ocwc Redbud Briarwood, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.21 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Ocwc Redbud Briarwood
Ocwc Redbud Briarwood serves about 50 people through 4 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Taney County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5301550; phone on file: 417-249-1402. 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 2021 (2.79 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ocwc Redbud Briarwood is 2.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.21 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.79 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.79 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.8 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. Ocwc Redbud Briarwood's 2.21 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Missouri and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
51 other systems share Taney County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ocwc Redbud Briarwood. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Branson Pws | 12,640 | 2.92 ppb |
| Mo American Tri State | 8,680 | 2 ppb |
| Taney County Pwsd 3 | 6,000 | 3.87 ppb |
| Taney County Pwsd 2 | 5,500 | 1.92 ppb |
| Hollister Pws | 4,426 | 0 (not detected) |
| Forsyth Pws | 2,730 | 2.75 ppb |
| Holiday Hills Resort | 2,065 | 3.83 ppb |
| Taney County Pwsd 1 | 2,000 | 1.17 ppb |
| Merriam Woods Pws | 1,839 | 5 ppb |
| College Of The Ozarks | 1,700 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kimberling 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 Ocwc Redbud Briarwood 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.