Brazil-Sumner Water Assn., MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 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.
Who runs the water here
Brazil-Sumner Water Assn. serves about 290 people through 110 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 Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0680032; phone on file: 662-902-5313. 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 2020 (3.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Brazil-Sumner Water Assn. is 3.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.2 ppb |
Against other Mississippi systems
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. Brazil-Sumner Water Assn.'s 2.6 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Mississippi and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Tallahatchie County
14 other systems share Tallahatchie County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Brazil-Sumner Water Assn.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Charleston Utilities | 3,100 | 0.7 ppb |
| North Tallahatchie W/A | 3,089 | 1.3 ppb |
| Blue Cane, Cowart & Tippo W/A. | 1,191 | 3.7 ppb |
| Town Of Tutwiler | 1,040 | 1.4 ppb |
| Cascilla Water Association | 837 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Tallahatchie Utl Assn | 713 | 0.7 ppb |
| Paynes Water Association | 531 | 1.2 ppb |
| Philipp Water Association | 518 | 5.3 ppb |
| Town Of Sumner | 517 | 1.1 ppb |
| Town Of Webb | 416 | 1.8 ppb |
Next steps for Sumner, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sumner, 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 Brazil-Sumner Water Assn. 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.