Odessa Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.33 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.
Who runs the water here
Odessa Pws serves about 5,202 people through 2,335 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lafayette County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO1010599; phone on file: 816-918-6634. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Odessa Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (2.43 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Odessa Pws is 3.33 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.33 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.43 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.43 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.43 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.65 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.65 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.65 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.1 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. Odessa Pws's 3.33 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Missouri and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lafayette County
13 other systems share Lafayette County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Odessa Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lafayette County Pwsd 1 | 8,250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Higginsville Pws | 4,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lexington Pws | 4,729 | 2.02 ppb |
| Concordia Pws | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wellsgate | 1,447 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waverly Pws | 900 | 4.73 ppb |
| Wellington Pws | 812 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alma Pws | 500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Lafayette Pws | 327 | 0 (not detected) |
| Twelve Oaks Water System | 314 | 0.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Odessa, 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 Odessa 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.