St Charles Pws, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
St Charles Pws serves about 78,961 people through 27,427 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in St. Charles County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO6010707; phone on file: 636-949-3239. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for St Charles Pws is 0 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. St Charles Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 39th percentile in Missouri and the 40th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share St. Charles County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than St Charles Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| St Charles County Pwsd 2 | 100,587 | 2.28 ppb |
| St Peters Pws | 52,575 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wentzville Pws | 41,784 | 4.77 ppb |
| Ofallon Pws | 32,515 | 1.48 ppb |
| St Paul Pws | 1,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| St Charles Co Pwsd 2 Augusta | 881 | 1.47 ppb |
| St Charles Pwsd 2 Foristell | 550 | 2.32 ppb |
| Mo American Jaxson | 535 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ecm Water & Sewer Authority - Flint Hill | 469 | 0 (not detected) |
| Portage Des Sioux Pws | 345 | 2.6 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in St Charles Pws's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask St Charles 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.