Palisades Village, MO
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14.7 ppb (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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Palisades Village at a glance
Palisades Village serves about 142 people through 50 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Jefferson County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO6036316; phone on file: 573-489-9135. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 10.32 ppb from 4.38 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Palisades Village is 271.9 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 14.7 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 4.38 ppb |
| 2020 | 7 ppb |
| 2019 | 13.6 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 3.38 ppb |
| 2019 | 29.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 7.05 ppb |
| 2018 | 271.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 5.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 14.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 19.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 1.18 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Palisades Village's 14.7 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Missouri and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
65 other systems share Jefferson County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Palisades Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Co Cons Pwsd C 1 | 37,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jefferson County Pwsd 1 | 21,113 | 7.25 ppb |
| Jefferson County Pwsd 3 | 17,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jefferson County Pwsd 2 | 16,548 | 0 (not detected) |
| Festus Pws | 13,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jefferson County Pwsd 10 | 10,000 | 3.86 ppb |
| Jefferson County Pwsd 5 | 8,000 | 1.13 ppb |
| Jefferson County Pwsd 6 | 7,500 | 2.93 ppb |
| Desoto Pws | 6,400 | 1.46 ppb |
| Jefferson County Pwsd 7 | 6,100 | 1.7 ppb |
Next steps for Pacific, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pacific, 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 Palisades Village 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.