Booneville Water Dept., MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 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.
Booneville Water Dept. at a glance
Booneville Water Dept. serves about 9,995 people through 3,786 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Prentiss County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0590004; phone on file: 662-728-5601. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (1.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Booneville Water Dept. is 1.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.8 ppb |
How Booneville Water Dept. 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. Booneville Water Dept.'s 0.7 ppb sits at the 36th percentile in Mississippi and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Prentiss County
11 other systems share Prentiss County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Booneville Water Dept.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wheeler-Frankstown Water Assn | 4,204 | 1.2 ppb |
| Big V Water Association | 3,878 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Baldwyn | 3,066 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holcut-Cairo Water Assn | 2,513 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Candler Water Association | 1,531 | 0.3 ppb |
| Thrasher Water Association | 1,400 | 1 ppb |
| New Site Water Association | 1,373 | 0.9 ppb |
| Town Of Jumpertown | 1,300 | 2.6 ppb |
| Blackland Water Association | 1,127 | 0.9 ppb |
| Town Of Marietta | 781 | 3.9 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Booneville, 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 Booneville Water Dept. 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.