Sweet Pea Pws, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Sweet Pea Pws at a glance
Sweet Pea Pws serves about 980 people through 400 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Camden County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO3076376; phone on file: 314-464-3964. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.2 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sweet Pea Pws is 1.2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1.2 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. Sweet Pea Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 29th percentile in Missouri and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
61 other systems share Camden County; 40 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sweet Pea Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Camden County Pwsd 4 Horseshoe Bend | 7,912 | 1.71 ppb |
| Camdenton Pws | 3,960 | 1.86 ppb |
| Osage Beach East Pws | 2,611 | 2.26 ppb |
| Camden County Pwsd #4 Shawnee Bend | 2,065 | 7.62 ppb |
| Osage Beach West Pws | 1,700 | 2.92 ppb |
| Camden County Pwsd 3 | 1,650 | 4.62 ppb |
| Camden County Pwsd 2 | 1,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camden County Pwsd 1 | 1,300 | 1.83 ppb |
| Encounter Cove Camp & Conference Center | 1,052 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sunrise Beach Village Of Pws | 930 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for St Louis, MO
Look up your address in Sweet Pea 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 Sweet Pea 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.