City Of Hattiesburg, MS
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.4 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
City Of Hattiesburg at a glance
City Of Hattiesburg serves about 43,449 people through 16,458 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 Forrest County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0180008; phone on file: 601-545-4501. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 7.6 ppb from 2.8 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Hattiesburg is 10.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 10.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.4 ppb |
How City Of Hattiesburg 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. City Of Hattiesburg's 10.4 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Mississippi and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Forrest County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than City Of Hattiesburg. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Petal | 9,509 | 0 (not detected) |
| Barrontown W/A | 7,999 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sunrise Utility Assn Inc | 6,067 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dixie Community Utility Assn. | 5,840 | 1.5 ppb |
| Glendale Utility District | 4,477 | 1.3 ppb |
| Rawls Springs Utility District | 3,168 | 2.1 ppb |
| Eastabuchie Water Association | 2,363 | 2.99 ppb |
| Brooklyn Water Association | 1,901 | 8.8 ppb |
| Carnes Water Association | 1,160 | 1.1 ppb |
| S Ms Public Water Auth-Mclaurin | 905 | 16.9 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hattiesburg, 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 Hattiesburg 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.