Cascilla Water Association, 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.
Cascilla Water Association at a glance
Cascilla Water Association serves about 837 people through 317 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 Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0680001; phone on file: 662-226-3463. 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 4.7 ppb from 4.7 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cascilla Water Association is 4.7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 4.7 ppb |
How Cascilla Water Association 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. Cascilla Water Association's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Mississippi and the 26th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Tallahatchie County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cascilla Water Association. 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 |
| 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 |
| Brazil-Sumner Water Assn. | 290 | 2.6 ppb |
Next steps for Charleston, MS
Look up your address in Cascilla Water Association'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 Cascilla Water Association 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.