City Of Rolling Fork, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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 Rolling Fork at a glance
City Of Rolling Fork serves about 1,808 people through 689 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 Sharkey County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0630004. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Rolling Fork is 2.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 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 Rolling Fork's 1.2 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Mississippi and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
4 other systems share Sharkey County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Rolling Fork. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Anguilla | 729 | 0.7 ppb |
| Town Of Cary | 591 | 1.9 ppb |
| Truelight Redevelopment Grp #2 | 546 | 0.8 ppb |
| Delta City Utility District | 230 | 2.31 ppb |
Next steps for Rolling Fork, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rolling Fork, 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 Rolling Fork 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.