Union Star Pws, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
About Union Star Pws
Union Star Pws serves about 386 people through 174 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Dekalb County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO1010802; phone on file: 816-387-6069. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.16 ppb from 1.16 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Union Star Pws is 1.16 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.16 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Union Star Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 21st percentile in Missouri and the 20th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Dekalb County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Union Star Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Dekalb County Pwsd 1 | 7,635 | 1.12 ppb |
| Maysville Pws | 1,096 | 4.42 ppb |
| Mo American Stewartsville | 928 | 0 (not detected) |
| Osborn Pws | 405 | 2.36 ppb |
| Clarksdale Pws | 245 | 1.4 ppb |
Next steps for Union Star, MO
Look up your address in Union Star 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 Union Star 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.