Boswell Regional Center, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.3 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.
Boswell Regional Center at a glance
Boswell Regional Center serves about 248 people through 94 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Simpson County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0640013; phone on file: 601-867-5008. 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 (0.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Boswell Regional Center is 1.6 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1.6 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. Boswell Regional Center's 0.3 ppb sits at the 19th percentile in Mississippi and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Simpson County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Boswell Regional Center. 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 |
Next steps for Magee, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Magee, 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 Boswell Regional Center 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.