Wayne County Pwsd 2, MO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Wayne County Pwsd 2 at a glance
Wayne County Pwsd 2 serves about 950 people through 302 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 groundwater, in Wayne County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4021310; phone on file: 573-856-4979. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Wayne County Pwsd 2's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wayne County Pwsd 2 is 1.97 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.97 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.97 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.02 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.02 ppb |
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. Wayne County Pwsd 2's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 29th percentile in Missouri and the 26th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Wayne County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wayne County Pwsd 2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Piedmont Pws | 1,987 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wayne & Butler County Pwsd 4 | 1,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greenville Pws | 497 | 0 (not detected) |
| Community Water System | 378 | 6.15 ppb |
| Williamsville Pws | 342 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wayne County Pwsd 3 | 300 | 7.1 ppb |
| Ridgetop Waterworks Corp Subdivision | 227 | 1.77 ppb |
| Liberty Utilities Whispering Hills Subd | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lost Creek Water Company | 133 | 0.63 ppb |
| Mill Spring Pws | 112 | 1.1 ppb |
Next steps for Patterson, MO
Look up your address in Wayne County Pwsd 2'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 Wayne County Pwsd 2 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.