Wayland Pws, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Wayland Pws at a glance
Wayland Pws serves about 420 people through 192 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 Clark County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO2010840; phone on file: 660-754-6132. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.07 ppb from 2.07 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wayland Pws is 2.07 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2.07 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.07 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 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. Wayland Pws'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.
Neighbouring systems
3 other systems share Clark County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wayland Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clark County Cons Pwsd 1 | 8,000 | 2.26 ppb |
| Kahoka Public Works Pws | 1,961 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wyaconda Pws | 209 | 2.3 ppb |
Next steps for Wayland, MO
Look up your address in Wayland 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 Wayland 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.