Saline County Pwsd 3, MO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.03 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Saline County Pwsd 3 serves about 3,000 people through 1,140 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 Saline County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO2024557; phone on file: 660-886-7079. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Saline County Pwsd 3's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1.33 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Saline County Pwsd 3 is 2750 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.03 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.33 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.33 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.18 ppb |
| 2019 | 2750 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 2.78 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.55 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.84 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 3's 1.03 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Missouri and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Saline County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Saline County Pwsd 3. 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 |
| Slater Pws | 1,835 | 5.5 ppb |
| Sweet Springs Pws | 1,309 | 2.58 ppb |
| Saline County Pwsd 2 | 883 | 1.24 ppb |
| Saline County Pwsd 1 | 480 | 14.5 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) |
Your move
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 3 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.