City Of Hollandale, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.03 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 Hollandale serves about 2,323 people through 997 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Washington County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0760005; phone on file: 662-827-2241. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
City Of Hollandale's lead record
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 Hollandale is 1.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.03 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 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 Hollandale's 1.03 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Mississippi and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Washington County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Hollandale. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Greenville | 29,602 | 1.1 ppb |
| Black Bayou Water Assn. | 6,917 | 1.5 ppb |
| City Of Leland | 4,591 | 0.7 ppb |
| Town Of Metcalfe | 1,125 | 0.6 ppb |
| Glen Allan Utility District | 649 | 0.79 ppb |
| Town Of Arcola | 546 | 1 ppb |
| Raskin Enterprises Llc-Delta Village Mhp | 491 | 0 (not detected) |
| Golding Acres Water Assn | 99 | 18.2 ppb |
| Winterville Water Association | 92 | 2 ppb |
| City Of Greenville (Airbase) | 30 | 4.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hollandale, 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 Hollandale 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.