Boyle-Skene-Benoit, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 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.
About Boyle-Skene-Benoit
Boyle-Skene-Benoit serves about 462 people through 180 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 Bolivar County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0060044; phone on file: 662-843-2320. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.3 ppb from 3.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Boyle-Skene-Benoit is 3.8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
How Boyle-Skene-Benoit 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. Boyle-Skene-Benoit's 1.5 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Mississippi and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
25 other systems share Bolivar County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Boyle-Skene-Benoit. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Cleveland | 16,392 | 1.3 ppb |
| City Of Shelby | 1,998 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Mound Bayou | 1,711 | 2.2 ppb |
| City Of Rosedale | 1,708 | 2.38 ppb |
| Town Of Shaw | 1,639 | 0.7 ppb |
| Delta State University | 1,500 | 5.2 ppb |
| Boyle-Skene W/A#3 | 1,486 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of Boyle | 1,400 | 1.1 ppb |
| Town Of Renova | 1,357 | 2 ppb |
| Boyle-Skene W/A #2 | 1,156 | 2.39 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Boyle, 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 Boyle-Skene-Benoit 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.