City Of Eupora, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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 Eupora serves about 5,586 people through 2,118 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Webster County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0780005; phone on file: 662-258-2291. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
City Of Eupora's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Eupora is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.9 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. City Of Eupora's 1.2 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in Mississippi and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Webster County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Eupora. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Savannah Water Association #1 | 1,434 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tomnolen Water Assn, Inc | 1,140 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Mathiston | 1,090 | 2.8 ppb |
| Sapa Water System | 842 | 1.7 ppb |
| Cumberland Water Assn | 715 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mantee Water Association | 486 | 110 ppb |
| Cadaretta Water Association | 445 | 0.9 ppb |
| Webster Center Water Assn | 416 | 1.3 ppb |
| Spring Valley Water Assn | 304 | 2 ppb |
| Mt Zion Water Association | 288 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eupora, 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 Eupora 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.