Westlake Meadows Subdivision, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.06 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.
Westlake Meadows Subdivision at a glance
Westlake Meadows Subdivision serves about 50 people through 22 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO4031453; phone on file: 573-979-6199. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Westlake Meadows Subdivision's lead record
That is up 1.24 ppb from 1.82 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Westlake Meadows Subdivision is 4.77 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.06 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.82 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.82 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.82 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.61 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.61 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.61 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.77 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. Westlake Meadows Subdivision's 3.06 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Missouri and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Cape Girardeau County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Westlake Meadows Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cape Girardeau Pws | 39,941 | 3.57 ppb |
| Jackson Pws | 15,000 | 1.03 ppb |
| Cape Perry County Pwsd 1 South | 8,545 | 2.32 ppb |
| Cape Girardeau County Pwsd 2 | 2,913 | 5.09 ppb |
| Cape Girardeau County Pwsd 4 | 1,743 | 1.1 ppb |
| Hillcrest Utility Operating Company Inc | 700 | 1.8 ppb |
| Cape Girardeau County Pwsd 5 | 485 | 0.93 ppb |
| Delta Pws | 480 | 2.29 ppb |
| Parkwood Estates Llc | 350 | 2.16 ppb |
| Whitewater Allenville Pws | 200 | 2.33 ppb |
Next steps for Cape Girardeau, MO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cape Girardeau, 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 Westlake Meadows Subdivision 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.