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City Of Nettleton, MS

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 ppb (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. 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 Nettleton at a glance

City Of Nettleton serves about 1,995 people through 924 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 Lee County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0410008; phone on file: 662-963-3060. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Every lead result on file

Against the period ending 2020 (0.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Nettleton is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20230.5 ppb
20200.4 ppb
20171 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 Nettleton's 0.5 ppb sits at the 23rd percentile in Mississippi and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).

Neighbouring systems

22 other systems share Lee County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Nettleton. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
City Of Tupelo37,0000 (not detected)
Town Of Saltillo6,7660.5 ppb
Mooreville-Richmond W/A #13,8070 (not detected)
Old Union Water System3,7490.7 ppb
Town Of Guntown3,5770 (not detected)
Mooreville Richmond #33,4191 ppb
Mooreville-Richmond W/A #23,2002.7 ppb
City Of Verona2,7920.55 ppb
North Lee W/A #1-Barnes Crosng2,6720.9 ppb
North Lee W/A-Beech Springs2,5560.5 ppb

Next steps for Nettleton, MS

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Nettleton, 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 Nettleton 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.