Southwood Acres Subd, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.41 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Southwood Acres Subd
Southwood Acres Subd serves about 35 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pettis County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO3036066; phone on file: 660-287-5020. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Southwood Acres Subd's lead record
That is up 1.41 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Southwood Acres Subd is 1.41 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.41 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Southwood Acres Subd 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. Southwood Acres Subd's 1.41 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Missouri and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
18 other systems share Pettis County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Southwood Acres Subd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sedalia Pws | 21,725 | 1.72 ppb |
| La Monte Pws | 1,120 | 5.51 ppb |
| Mo American Maplewood Subdivision | 1,008 | 2 ppb |
| Green Ridge Pws | 595 | 1.99 ppb |
| Mo American Smithton | 500 | 1 ppb |
| Southgate Subdivision | 216 | 14.8 ppb |
| Houstonia Pws | 198 | 2.53 ppb |
| Hughesville Pws | 158 | 5.5 ppb |
| Mo American Monsees Lake Estates | 155 | 12 ppb |
| Elm Hills Utility Operating Company Inc | 154 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Sedalia, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sedalia, 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 Southwood Acres Subd 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.