City Of Water Valley, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
City Of Water Valley at a glance
City Of Water Valley serves about 3,380 people through 1,669 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 Yalobusha County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0810011; phone on file: 662-473-1533. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
City Of Water Valley's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Water Valley is 2.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.1 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 Water Valley's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in Mississippi and the 33rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Yalobusha County
14 other systems share Yalobusha County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Water Valley. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Billys Creek Rural W/A | 1,532 | 0.8 ppb |
| Yalobusha Water/Sewer Dist #1 | 1,422 | 1.1 ppb |
| Jeff Davis W/A Inc | 1,312 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tillatoba Water Association | 1,200 | 0.6 ppb |
| Tri-Lakes Water Assn-West | 1,059 | 0.6 ppb |
| Town Of Coffeeville | 905 | 2.1 ppb |
| Town Of Oakland | 579 | 0.7 ppb |
| Yalobusha Water/Sewer Dist #2 | 537 | 0.5 ppb |
| East End Water Association | 479 | 0.8 ppb |
| Tri-Lakes Water Assn-East | 407 | 0.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in City Of Water Valley'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 Water Valley 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.