Rich Hill 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.
Rich Hill Pws at a glance
Rich Hill Pws serves about 1,400 people through 685 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 surface water, in Bates County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO1010682; phone on file: 417-395-2223. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Rich Hill Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rich Hill Pws is 0 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 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. Rich Hill Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 31st percentile in Missouri and the 29th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Bates County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rich Hill Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Butler Pws | 4,219 | 1.8 ppb |
| Bates County Pwsd 5 | 2,690 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bates County Pwsd 6 | 2,600 | 2.66 ppb |
| Adrian Pws | 1,635 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bates County Pwsd 2 | 752 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bates County Pwsd 7 | 500 | 0.79 ppb |
| Bates County Pwsd 3 | 432 | 2.14 ppb |
| Hume Pws | 330 | 7.63 ppb |
| Bates County Pwsd 1 | 268 | 0 (not detected) |
| Amoret Pws | 190 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Rich Hill, MO
Look up your address in Rich Hill 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 Rich Hill 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.