Ozark Correctional Center, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
About Ozark Correctional Center
Ozark Correctional Center serves about 900 people through 44 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Webster County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5069035; phone on file: 417-767-4491. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Ozark Correctional Center's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ozark Correctional Center is 1.18 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.12 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.12 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.18 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. Ozark Correctional Center's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 29th percentile in Missouri and the 26th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Webster County
10 other systems share Webster County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ozark Correctional Center. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Marshfield Pws | 7,425 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rogersville Pws | 5,602 | 1.77 ppb |
| Seymour Pws | 1,943 | 6.42 ppb |
| Fordland Pws | 800 | 3.55 ppb |
| Niangua Pws | 411 | 1.1 ppb |
| Diggins Pws | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Joyce Rentals | 70 | 2.46 ppb |
| Shady Oak Rv & Tiny Home Park | 50 | 5.26 ppb |
| Oak Ridge Estates | 25 | 6.32 ppb |
| Lazy J Rv Park | 20 | 1.99 ppb |
Next steps for Fordland, MO
Look up your address in Ozark Correctional Center'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 Ozark Correctional Center 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.