City Of New Albany, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.69 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 New Albany serves about 8,900 people through 4,733 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 Union County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0730006; phone on file: 662-534-1041. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of New Albany is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.69 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.5 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 New Albany's 2.69 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Mississippi and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Union County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than City Of New Albany. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wallerville Water Association | 2,886 | 0.5 ppb |
| Ingomar Water Association | 2,782 | 1.8 ppb |
| Keownville Rural Water Assn | 2,663 | 1.1 ppb |
| Town Of Myrtle | 2,037 | 0.8 ppb |
| Blue Springs W/A | 1,840 | 0.8 ppb |
| Hwy 30 West Water Association | 1,716 | 0.8 ppb |
| Mud Creek Water Association #4 | 1,243 | 0.6 ppb |
| Bethlehem Water Association | 937 | 1 ppb |
| North Haven Water Association | 930 | 3.6 ppb |
| Alpine Water Association | 866 | 1.3 ppb |
Next steps for New Albany, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Albany, 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 New Albany 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.