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Is Leadwood, MO tap water safe?

Leadwood PWS serves Leadwood, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Leadwood PWS serves Leadwood. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 2 results above the health goal, and 30 health-based violations since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 1.1 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Leadwood PWS’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Leadwood

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Missouri certifies.

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

  • Eastern Missouri Water Lab

    Lonedell, MO · about 33 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (636) 775-2889

  • Franklin County Lab

    Union, MO · about 47 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (636) 583-9288

  • EMSL Analytical Inc.-St. Louis

    St. Louis, MO · about 50 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (314) 577-0150

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

ZIP codes in Leadwood

Which ZIP codes are in Leadwood: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: Missouri DNR, certified microbiological and chemical laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Leadwood

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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