Beaver Meadow Waterworks Association, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Beaver Meadow Waterworks Association at a glance
Beaver Meadow Waterworks Association serves about 1,687 people through 639 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Jasper County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0310004; phone on file: 601-425-4452. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2017 (0.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Beaver Meadow Waterworks Association is 1.6 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.9 ppb |
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. Beaver Meadow Waterworks Association's 1.6 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Mississippi and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Jasper County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Beaver Meadow Waterworks Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Stringer Water Works | 3,556 | 1.4 ppb |
| Tallahala W/A-Antioch | 3,427 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Bay Springs | 2,925 | 2.2 ppb |
| Philadelphia Water Assn | 2,062 | 2.4 ppb |
| Tri-County W/A #1-Jasper | 1,861 | 0.6 ppb |
| Tri-County W/A #3-Summerland | 1,853 | 1.8 ppb |
| Beaverdam W/A-North | 1,800 | 1.2 ppb |
| Tallahala W/A-Garlandsville | 1,534 | 1.1 ppb |
| Paulding Water Association | 1,363 | 3.4 ppb |
| Rose Hill Water Association | 1,280 | 0.8 ppb |
Next steps for Sandersville, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sandersville, 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 Beaver Meadow Waterworks Association 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.