Spickard Pws, MO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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
Spickard Pws serves about 254 people through 91 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 surface water, in Grundy County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO2010753; phone on file: 660-654-4399. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.37 ppb from 1.37 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Spickard Pws is 42.6 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.37 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.37 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 42.6 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Spickard Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 17th percentile in Missouri and the 17th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Grundy County
4 other systems share Grundy County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Spickard Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Trenton Municipal Utilities Pws | 5,600 | 3.76 ppb |
| Grundy County Pwsd 1 | 3,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Laredo Pws | 240 | 0 (not detected) |
| Galt Pws | 166 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Spickard, 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 Spickard 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.