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Camden County PWSD 3

What EPA’s and CDC’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
1,650 people
Connections
430
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Camdenton, MO
County
Camden
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

65020

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2012 to 2024.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate and arsenic: Missouri’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2020 to 2023, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Fluoride, chromium (total) and uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Feb. 28, 2012 to Aug. 22, 2018. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

4.6ppb

90th percentile, 2022 to 2024

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 4.6 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits5

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.095ppm

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2018

2018 average: 0.09 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.095 ppm, in 2012, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 0.19 ppm. In 2018, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.09 ppm.

What handles it

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2018

2018: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.3 ppb, in 2012, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. Its highest single sample was 2.9 ppb. In 2018, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its two samples.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.4 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 12.7 ppb, in 2013.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.73ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.73 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 19.2 ppb, in 2013.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.03ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023 average: 0.03 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.03 ppm, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 0.03 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.085 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Uranium

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There is 1 monitoring or reporting violation: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate and arsenic results here are Missouri’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Fluoride, chromium (total) and uranium come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Camden County PWSD 3’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; CDC’s yearly averages for Missouri cover 2020 to 2023; EPA’s compliance samples are from Feb. 28, 2012 to Aug. 22, 2018.

Testing your own tap

Camden County PWSD 3’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Missouri certifies.

The 3 labs Missouri certifies closest to the area Camden County PWSD 3 serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Lake of the Ozarks Water Services

    Camdenton, MO · under a mile

    Certified for bacteria

    (573) 346-2092

  • Total Water Laboratories LLC

    Camdenton, MO · under a mile

    Certified for bacteria

    (833) 688-6606

  • Alpha Engineering and Surveying LLC

    Osage Beach, MO · about 11 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (573) 348-9799

Missouri State Public Health Laboratory: Coliform and E. coli testing for private wells and other private drinking water sources, in kits from your local public health agency. A free state courier can carry the sample to the lab overnight. The handling fee is $10, by check or money order. Private Drinking Water Bacteriological Testing, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.

All 64 certified labs for Missouri

Sources

PWSID MO5021438. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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