City Of Hernando, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 City Of Hernando
City Of Hernando serves about 14,457 people through 5,476 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 Desoto County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0170009; phone on file: 662-429-9092. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
City Of Hernando's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Hernando is 1.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.6 ppb |
How City Of Hernando 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 Hernando's 1.2 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in Mississippi and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Desoto County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Hernando. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Southaven | 56,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Olive Branch | 54,025 | 0.9 ppb |
| City Of Horn Lake | 13,649 | 1.2 ppb |
| Horn Lake Water Association | 12,735 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lewisburg Water Association | 9,390 | 1.8 ppb |
| Walls Water Assn- Lake Forest | 9,298 | 0.7 ppb |
| City Of Hernando-Jaybird | 6,750 | 1.9 ppb |
| Nesbit Water Association | 5,988 | 1.1 ppb |
| Eudora Utilities Association | 3,749 | 0.8 ppb |
| Walls Water Association | 2,999 | 0.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hernando, 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 Hernando 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.