City Of Meridian, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
City Of Meridian at a glance
City Of Meridian serves about 34,466 people through 13,682 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 Lauderdale County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0380005; phone on file: 601-485-1926. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
City Of Meridian's lead record
That is down 1.3 ppb from 1.3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Meridian is 2.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 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 Meridian's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 17th percentile in Mississippi and the 39th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Lauderdale County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Meridian. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| North Lauderdale W/A, Inc | 10,544 | 2.6 ppb |
| Nts Utility Association | 5,103 | 1.3 ppb |
| Clarkdale Water Assn # 1 | 4,500 | 0.7 ppb |
| Long Creek Water Assn #2 | 3,977 | 0.6 ppb |
| Toomsuba Water Association | 3,828 | 0.5 ppb |
| Collinsville Water Assn | 3,403 | 0 (not detected) |
| Long Creek Water Assn #1 | 2,814 | 0.8 ppb |
| Meridian Naval Air Station | 2,800 | 0.5 ppb |
| Southwest Lauderdale W/A | 2,724 | 5 ppb |
| Russell Utilities Inc | 2,130 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in City Of Meridian's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask City Of Meridian 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.