City Of Morton, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 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.
City Of Morton at a glance
City Of Morton serves about 3,400 people through 2,097 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 Scott County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0620009; phone on file: 601-732-8609. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
City Of Morton's lead record
That is down 1.4 ppb from 1.9 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Morton is 1.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.5 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 Morton's 0.5 ppb sits at the 24th percentile in Mississippi and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Scott County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Morton. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sebastopol Water Association | 6,207 | 1.2 ppb |
| City Of Forest | 5,430 | 2.2 ppb |
| H & H Water System, Inc | 3,036 | 2.9 ppb |
| Steele-Ringgold W/A #1 | 2,965 | 1.5 ppb |
| Steele-Ringgold W/A #2 | 2,883 | 0.8 ppb |
| Homewood Water Association | 1,877 | 0.9 ppb |
| C & C W/A | 1,808 | 1.3 ppb |
| L & F Water Association | 1,803 | 1.5 ppb |
| Homestead Water Association | 1,251 | 1.4 ppb |
| High Hill Water Association | 600 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Morton, 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 Morton 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.