Puxico Pws, 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.
Who runs the water here
Puxico Pws serves about 890 people through 445 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Stoddard County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4010668; phone on file: 573-222-3162. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.66 ppb from 1.66 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Puxico Pws is 1.85 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.66 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.66 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1.85 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.85 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. Puxico Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 28th 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.
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Stoddard County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Puxico Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Dexter Pws | 8,200 | 2.03 ppb |
| Stoddard County Pwsd 1 | 3,000 | 1.52 ppb |
| Bloomfield Pws | 1,980 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bernie Pws | 1,898 | 6.43 ppb |
| Stoddard County Pwsd 4 | 1,530 | 11.5 ppb |
| Advance Pws | 1,400 | 3.1 ppb |
| Stoddard County Pwsd 6 | 840 | 1.16 ppb |
| Stoddard County Pwsd 5 | 650 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stoddard County Pwsd 7 | 500 | 0.98 ppb |
| Bell City Pws | 428 | 2.74 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Puxico Pws'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 Puxico 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.