Texas Landing Utilities, MO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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
Texas Landing Utilities serves about 420 people through 167 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Polk County, Missouri. EPA system ID: TX1870151; phone on file: 254-355-9124. 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 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Texas Landing Utilities is 25.3 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 4.45 ppb |
| 2024 | 6.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 25.3 ppb over 15 |
Against other Missouri systems
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. Texas Landing Utilities's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 22nd percentile in Missouri and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Polk County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Texas Landing Utilities. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Liberty Utilities Bolivar | 11,000 | 1.2 ppb |
| Humansville Pws | 1,048 | 6.94 ppb |
| Pleasant Hope Pws | 614 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bolivar Southtown Utilities Company Inc | 573 | 1.06 ppb |
| Fair Play Pws | 475 | 0 (not detected) |
| Morrisville Pws | 400 | 1.27 ppb |
| Silo Ridge | 400 | 2.02 ppb |
| Halfway Pws | 151 | 2.93 ppb |
| Flemington Pws | 124 | 1.57 ppb |
| Lake Meadows Mhp | 100 | 5.68 ppb |
Next steps for Saint Louis, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Saint Louis, 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 Texas Landing Utilities 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.