Saline County Pwsd 1, MO
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14.5 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Saline County Pwsd 1 at a glance
Saline County Pwsd 1 serves about 480 people through 212 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Saline County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO2024555. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Saline County Pwsd 1's lead record
That is up 10.02 ppb from 4.48 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Saline County Pwsd 1 is 14.5 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (3 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 14.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 4.48 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.48 ppb |
| 2019 | 10.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 10.6 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 8.5 ppb |
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. Saline County Pwsd 1's 14.5 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Missouri and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Saline County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Saline County Pwsd 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Marshall Pws | 12,934 | 3.76 ppb |
| Saline County Pwsd 3 | 3,000 | 1.03 ppb |
| Slater Pws | 1,835 | 5.5 ppb |
| Sweet Springs Pws | 1,309 | 2.58 ppb |
| Saline County Pwsd 2 | 883 | 1.24 ppb |
| Arrow Rock Pws | 235 | 1.65 ppb |
| Malta Bend Pws | 200 | 2.28 ppb |
| Nelson Pws | 158 | 0.55 ppb |
| Miami Pws | 140 | 1.17 ppb |
| Gilliam Pws | 125 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Marshall, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Marshall, 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 Saline County Pwsd 1 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.