Americas Catch The Farm, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.2 ppb (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. 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.
About Americas Catch The Farm
Americas Catch The Farm serves about 114 people through 61 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Leflore County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0420045; phone on file: 662-254-7200. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 5.1 ppb from 9.3 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Americas Catch The Farm is 14 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 9.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 14 ppb over 10 |
Where this result ranks
Of the 973 Mississippi systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 9 are over 15 ppb right now and 44 have gone over at some point. Americas Catch The Farm's 4.2 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in Mississippi and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Leflore County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Americas Catch The Farm. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Greenwood | 19,140 | 0.9 ppb |
| East Leflore Water & Sewer Dst | 5,206 | 0.7 ppb |
| Ms Valley State University | 2,250 | 2.1 ppb |
| City Of Itta Bena | 2,049 | 2.5 ppb |
| Town Of Sidon | 464 | 1.2 ppb |
| City Of Schlater | 375 | 1.1 ppb |
| Minter City Water & Sewer | 357 | 3.9 ppb |
| Morgan City Water & Sewer Assn | 264 | 3.2 ppb |
| Phillipston Water Association | 148 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blue Lake Water Assn. Inc | 100 | 0.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Itta Bena, MS 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 Americas Catch The Farm 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.