Coahoma Community College, MS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Coahoma Community College at a glance
Coahoma Community College serves about 2,000 people through 50 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Coahoma County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0140033; phone on file: 662-621-4130. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Coahoma Community College is 26.1 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 26.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 5 ppb |
| 2017 | 7 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.8 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. Coahoma Community College's 1.1 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Mississippi and the 57th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Coahoma County
16 other systems share Coahoma County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Coahoma Community College. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clarksdale Public Utilities | 14,903 | 2.2 ppb |
| Town Of Jonestown | 968 | 1.5 ppb |
| Town Of Friars Point | 858 | 0.6 ppb |
| Water Association Of Moon Lake | 739 | 0.8 ppb |
| Coahoma Utility Dist #2 | 645 | 3.2 ppb |
| Pine Grove Water Association | 457 | 0 (not detected) |
| Moore Bayou Water Association | 438 | 2.2 ppb |
| Rena Lara Water Association | 436 | 0 (not detected) |
| Moore Bayou W/A #2 | 420 | 3.2 ppb |
| Moore Bayou W/A #3 | 378 | 0.8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Clarksdale, 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 Coahoma Community College whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1502.5 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.