Central Yazoo #4-Benton, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 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.
About Central Yazoo #4-Benton
Central Yazoo #4-Benton serves about 1,225 people through 464 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 Yazoo County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0820031; phone on file: 662-746-7531. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Central Yazoo #4-Benton's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (0.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Central Yazoo #4-Benton is 1.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.8 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. Central Yazoo #4-Benton's 0.7 ppb sits at the 33rd percentile in Mississippi and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Yazoo County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Central Yazoo #4-Benton. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Yazoo City | 9,913 | 0.6 ppb |
| Central Yazoo #1 Fletchers Ch. | 2,482 | 0.7 ppb |
| Central Yazoo #3 Mechanicsbrg | 1,927 | 0.8 ppb |
| Central Yazoo W/A #5 | 1,618 | 0.94 ppb |
| Hilton Heights Water Assn #1 | 1,336 | 4 ppb |
| Casey Jones Water Assn. | 1,146 | 1.9 ppb |
| Lake City Water Assn-East | 956 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake City Water Assn-West | 929 | 0 (not detected) |
| Midway W/A #3 | 739 | 1.8 ppb |
| Midway W/A #1 | 552 | 1.9 ppb |
Next steps for Yazoo City, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Yazoo City, 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 Central Yazoo #4-Benton 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.