Red Oak Community Water Service, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Red Oak Community Water Service at a glance
Red Oak Community Water Service serves about 321 people through 107 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Ellis County, Missouri. EPA system ID: TX0700056; phone on file: 254-355-9124. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Red Oak Community Water Service is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Red Oak Community Water Service's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Missouri and the 19th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Ellis County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Red Oak Community Water Service. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Grande Casa | 501 | 2.25 ppb |
| Spanish Grant Subdivision | 444 | 1.6 ppb |
| Lakeview Ranchettes | 309 | 1.92 ppb |
| Lakeview Water System | 216 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chambers Meadow Estate Water | 198 | 3.37 ppb |
| Emerald Forest | 180 | 3.9 ppb |
| Howard Water Coop | 138 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Red Oak Community Water Service'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 Red Oak Community Water Service 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.