Wheeling Pws, 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.
Wheeling Pws at a glance
Wheeling Pws serves about 223 people through 108 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 Livingston County, Missouri. EPA system ID: MO2010857; phone on file: 660-247-0905. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Wheeling Pws'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 Wheeling Pws is 0.87 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 | 0.87 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.87 ppb |
| 2016 | 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. Wheeling Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 16th percentile in Missouri and the 16th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Livingston County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Wheeling Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Chillicothe Municipal Utilities Pws | 10,187 | 1.12 ppb |
| Livingston County Pwsd 2 | 2,215 | 0 (not detected) |
| Livingston County Pwsd 3 East | 2,087 | 0 (not detected) |
| Linn Livingston County Pwsd 3 | 1,350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Livingston County Pwsd 1 | 1,320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chula Pws | 202 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Wheeling, MO
Look up your address in Wheeling 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 Wheeling 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.