Sandy Acres, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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 Sandy Acres
Sandy Acres serves about 678 people through 271 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Marion County, Missouri. EPA system ID: FL3421118; phone on file: 314-736-4672. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (1.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sandy Acres is 1.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.4 ppb |
How Sandy Acres 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. Sandy Acres's 1.4 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Missouri and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Marion County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sandy Acres. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hannibal Pws | 17,108 | 5.28 ppb |
| Marion County Pwsd 1 | 4,900 | 3.07 ppb |
| Palmyra Pws | 3,595 | 1.13 ppb |
| Sun Ray Estates | 1,460 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tradewinds Village | 1,218 | 0 (not detected) |
| Little Lake Weir Subdivision | 1,138 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ocala Heights S/D | 1,045 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ocklawaha Water Works (2 Wtps) | 965 | 0 (not detected) |
| Winding Waters | 608 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hilltop At Lake Weir | 595 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Des Peres, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Des Peres, 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 Sandy Acres 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.