Boggan Ridge W/A-Pine Grove, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Boggan Ridge W/A-Pine Grove serves about 1,177 people through 430 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 Simpson County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0640011; phone on file: 601-847-1729. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.4 ppb from 1.4 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Boggan Ridge W/A-Pine Grove is 2.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.8 ppb |
How Boggan Ridge W/A-Pine Grove 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. Boggan Ridge W/A-Pine Grove's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in Mississippi and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Simpson County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Boggan Ridge W/A-Pine Grove. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Okatoma Water Association #2 | 5,866 | 0.7 ppb |
| Smiths Crossing Water Assn | 4,480 | 10.3 ppb |
| Okatoma Water Association #1 | 3,981 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Magee | 3,526 | 12 ppb |
| New Hope Water Association | 2,587 | 0.5 ppb |
| Highway 28 Water Association | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Mendenhall | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shivers Water Association | 2,200 | 1.7 ppb |
| Harrisville W/A | 1,967 | 1.6 ppb |
| Boggan Ridge W/A | 1,500 | 0.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Boggan Ridge W/A-Pine Grove'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 Boggan Ridge W/A-Pine Grove 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.