Red Oak Estates, 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.
About Red Oak Estates
Red Oak Estates serves about 75 people through 35 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Newton County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5048346; phone on file: 417-439-0816. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Red Oak Estates's lead record
That is down 1.22 ppb from 1.22 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Red Oak Estates is 1.66 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.22 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.22 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.66 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.66 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Red Oak Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 6th percentile in Missouri and the 7th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Newton County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Red Oak Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Neosho Pws | 12,157 | 4.89 ppb |
| Seneca Pws | 2,390 | 2.07 ppb |
| Granby Pws | 2,034 | 2.38 ppb |
| Diamond Pws | 926 | 1.39 ppb |
| Newton Co Pwsd 1 | 450 | 0.69 ppb |
| Fairview Pws | 380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Redings Mill Pws | 163 | 4.4 ppb |
| Stella Pws | 158 | 2.9 ppb |
| Big Valley Park Mhp | 158 | 0.53 ppb |
| Timberlost Mhp | 150 | 1.44 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Red Oak Estates'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 Estates 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.