Starrlite Village 4th Addition, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.81 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.
Who runs the water here
Starrlite Village 4th Addition serves about 55 people through 22 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Stone County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5258070; phone on file: 318-243-4586. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (2.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Starrlite Village 4th Addition is 5.43 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.81 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.43 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.43 ppb |
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. Starrlite Village 4th Addition's 1.81 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Missouri and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
87 other systems share Stone County; 35 of them have a higher latest lead result than Starrlite Village 4th Addition. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mo American Stonebridge Village | 2,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stone County Pwsd 1 | 2,052 | 2.13 ppb |
| Pwsd 2 Of Stone County 265 | 1,535 | 2.59 ppb |
| Crane Pws | 1,495 | 2.59 ppb |
| Mo Ark Water Co | 1,478 | 1.52 ppb |
| Reeds Spring Pws | 1,287 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mo American Ozark Mtn Water Company 2 | 583 | 7 ppb |
| Twin Island Estates | 525 | 4.58 ppb |
| Ocwc Lantern Bay | 502 | 3.54 ppb |
| Galena Pws | 500 | 1.01 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Reeds Spring, 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 Starrlite Village 4th Addition 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.