City Of Magee, MS
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
City Of Magee serves about 3,526 people through 1,598 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 Simpson County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0640006; phone on file: 601-849-3344. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4.2 ppb from 7.8 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Magee is 12 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 7.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.5 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 Magee's 12 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Mississippi and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Simpson County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Magee. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Okatoma Water Association #2 | 5,866 | 0.7 ppb |
| Smiths Crossing Water Assn | 4,480 | 10.3 ppb |
| Okatoma Water Association #1 | 3,981 | 3 ppb |
| New Hope Water Association | 2,587 | 0.5 ppb |
| Highway 28 Water Association | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Mendenhall | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shivers Water Association | 2,200 | 1.7 ppb |
| Harrisville W/A | 1,967 | 1.6 ppb |
| Boggan Ridge W/A | 1,500 | 0.6 ppb |
| Poplar Springs Water District | 1,188 | 0.6 ppb |
Next steps for Magee, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Magee, 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 Magee whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1720 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.