Wheaton Pws, MO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.62 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.
Wheaton Pws at a glance
Wheaton Pws serves about 698 people through 291 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 Barry County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO5010856; phone on file: 417-652-3314. 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 up 1.61 ppb from 2.01 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wheaton Pws is 3.83 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.62 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.01 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.01 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.01 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.93 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.93 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.93 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.83 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. Wheaton Pws's 3.62 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Missouri and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
29 other systems share Barry County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wheaton Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Monett Pws | 9,789 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cassville Pws | 3,290 | 2.09 ppb |
| Southwest Rural Water District 1 | 2,700 | 1.78 ppb |
| Purdy Pws | 1,100 | 1.21 ppb |
| Seligman Pws | 890 | 0 (not detected) |
| Exeter Pws | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Butterfield Pws | 528 | 0.68 ppb |
| Emerald Beach Village Of Pws | 484 | 0.52 ppb |
| Washburn Pws | 448 | 0.52 ppb |
| Mo American Ozark Mtn Water Company 1 | 350 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wheaton, 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 Wheaton 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.