Cleary Water Sewer & Fire Dept, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.7 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.
Who runs the water here
Cleary Water Sewer & Fire Dept serves about 2,500 people through 768 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 Rankin County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0610022; phone on file: 601-845-6375. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Cleary Water Sewer & Fire Dept's lead record
That is down 1.1 ppb from 3.8 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cleary Water Sewer & Fire Dept is 3.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.6 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. Cleary Water Sewer & Fire Dept's 2.7 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Mississippi and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
34 other systems share Rankin County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cleary Water Sewer & Fire Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Brandon | 31,852 | 1.6 ppb |
| City Of Flowood | 31,574 | 1.6 ppb |
| City Of Pearl | 27,115 | 1.2 ppb |
| Prvwsd-Pelahatchie Bay | 11,790 | 2 ppb |
| Fannin Water Assn-North | 7,690 | 2.7 ppb |
| City Of Richland | 7,000 | 0.7 ppb |
| Greenfield Water Association | 6,088 | 1.5 ppb |
| Town Of Florence | 5,824 | 1.4 ppb |
| City Of Flowood - Noranco | 4,274 | 0.9 ppb |
| Langford Water Association | 4,013 | 1.8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Florence, 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 Cleary Water Sewer & Fire Dept 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.