Arlington W/A-Hintonville, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Arlington W/A-Hintonville at a glance
Arlington W/A-Hintonville serves about 488 people through 185 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Perry County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0560014; phone on file: 601-784-2055. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 7.5 ppb from 7.5 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Arlington W/A-Hintonville is 7.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 7.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.5 ppb |
How Arlington W/A-Hintonville compares
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. Arlington W/A-Hintonville's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 3rd percentile in Mississippi and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Perry County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Arlington W/A-Hintonville. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| N E Perry Utl Assn-#1 | 2,619 | 0.6 ppb |
| Runnelstown-North | 1,968 | 3.6 ppb |
| Town Of Beaumont | 1,106 | 1.5 ppb |
| Town Of Richton | 920 | 1 ppb |
| Little Creek Water Association | 654 | 5.9 ppb |
| Janice W/A #1 | 602 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of New Augusta | 570 | 2.4 ppb |
| Arlington W/A | 533 | 0.5 ppb |
| Janice W/A #2-South | 227 | 13 ppb |
Next steps for Richton, MS
Look up your address in Arlington W/A-Hintonville'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 Arlington W/A-Hintonville 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.