Rogersville Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.77 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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Rogersville Pws at a glance
Rogersville Pws serves about 5,602 people through 1,915 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Webster County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5010699; phone on file: 417-753-2884. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Rogersville Pws's lead record
That is down 1.04 ppb from 2.81 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rogersville Pws is 2.81 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.77 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.81 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.81 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.54 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.54 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.12 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.12 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.39 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. Rogersville Pws's 1.77 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Missouri and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Webster County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rogersville Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Marshfield Pws | 7,425 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seymour Pws | 1,943 | 6.42 ppb |
| Ozark Correctional Center | 900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fordland Pws | 800 | 3.55 ppb |
| Niangua Pws | 411 | 1.1 ppb |
| Diggins Pws | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Joyce Rentals | 70 | 2.46 ppb |
| Shady Oak Rv & Tiny Home Park | 50 | 5.26 ppb |
| Oak Ridge Estates | 25 | 6.32 ppb |
| Lazy J Rv Park | 20 | 1.99 ppb |
Next steps for Rogersville, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rogersville, 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 Rogersville 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.