Russellville Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.69 ppb (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. 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.
About Russellville Pws
Russellville Pws serves about 800 people through 331 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 Cole County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO3010706; phone on file: 573-782-3511. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Russellville Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (2.44 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Russellville Pws is 2.44 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.69 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.44 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.44 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.18 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.18 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.53 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.53 ppb |
How Russellville Pws compares
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. Russellville Pws's 1.69 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Missouri and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Cole County
11 other systems share Cole County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Russellville Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mo American Jefferson City District | 30,075 | 2 ppb |
| Cole County Pwsd 1 | 16,548 | 5.13 ppb |
| Cole County Pwsd 2 | 13,107 | 8.58 ppb |
| Cole County Pwsd 4 | 7,568 | 8.81 ppb |
| Cole County Pwsd 3 | 2,000 | 1.88 ppb |
| Mo American Wardsville | 1,506 | 2 ppb |
| Cole County Pwsd 5 | 350 | 15.1 ppb |
| Centertown Pws | 278 | 0.59 ppb |
| Mo American Lake Carmel | 215 | 2 ppb |
| Eugene Pws | 125 | 0.78 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Russellville, 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 Russellville 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.