City Of Brandon, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 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.
Who runs the water here
City Of Brandon serves about 31,852 people through 12,065 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Rankin County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0610003; phone on file: 601-825-5021. 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 (1.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Brandon is 2.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.7 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. City Of Brandon's 1.6 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Mississippi and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
34 other systems share Rankin County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Brandon. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Flowood | 31,574 | 1.6 ppb |
| City Of Pearl | 27,115 | 1.2 ppb |
| Prvwsd-Pelahatchie Bay | 11,790 | 2 ppb |
| Fannin Water Assn-North | 7,690 | 2.7 ppb |
| City Of Richland | 7,000 | 0.7 ppb |
| Greenfield Water Association | 6,088 | 1.5 ppb |
| Town Of Florence | 5,824 | 1.4 ppb |
| City Of Flowood - Noranco | 4,274 | 0.9 ppb |
| Langford Water Association | 4,013 | 1.8 ppb |
| Ms State Hospital-Whitfield | 3,950 | 2.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Brandon, 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 City Of Brandon 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.