City Of Southaven, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
About City Of Southaven
City Of Southaven serves about 56,000 people through 24,963 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 Desoto County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0170018; phone on file: 662-393-7353. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
City Of Southaven's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Southaven is 0.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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 Southaven's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 18th percentile in Mississippi and the 40th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Desoto County
17 other systems share Desoto County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Southaven. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Olive Branch | 54,025 | 0.9 ppb |
| City Of Hernando | 14,457 | 1.2 ppb |
| City Of Horn Lake | 13,649 | 1.2 ppb |
| Horn Lake Water Association | 12,735 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lewisburg Water Association | 9,390 | 1.8 ppb |
| Walls Water Assn- Lake Forest | 9,298 | 0.7 ppb |
| City Of Hernando-Jaybird | 6,750 | 1.9 ppb |
| Nesbit Water Association | 5,988 | 1.1 ppb |
| Eudora Utilities Association | 3,749 | 0.8 ppb |
| Walls Water Association | 2,999 | 0.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in City Of Southaven'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 Southaven 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.