Sweet Springs Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.58 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.
Sweet Springs Pws at a glance
Sweet Springs Pws serves about 1,309 people through 552 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Saline County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO2010780; phone on file: 660-335-4564. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Sweet Springs Pws's lead record
That is down 1.01 ppb from 3.59 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sweet Springs Pws is 3.59 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.58 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.59 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.59 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.59 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.73 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.73 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.73 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.64 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 Springs Pws's 2.58 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Missouri and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Saline County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sweet Springs Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Marshall Pws | 12,934 | 3.76 ppb |
| Saline County Pwsd 3 | 3,000 | 1.03 ppb |
| Slater Pws | 1,835 | 5.5 ppb |
| Saline County Pwsd 2 | 883 | 1.24 ppb |
| Saline County Pwsd 1 | 480 | 14.5 ppb |
| Arrow Rock Pws | 235 | 1.65 ppb |
| Malta Bend Pws | 200 | 2.28 ppb |
| Nelson Pws | 158 | 0.55 ppb |
| Miami Pws | 140 | 1.17 ppb |
| Gilliam Pws | 125 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Sweet Springs, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sweet Springs, 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 Sweet Springs 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.