Columbus Air Force Base, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 ppb (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. 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.
Columbus Air Force Base at a glance
Columbus Air Force Base serves about 3,300 people through 406 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws groundwater, in Lowndes County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0440018; phone on file: 662-434-7326. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Columbus Air Force Base's lead record
That is down 1.6 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Columbus Air Force Base is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.5 ppb |
How Columbus Air Force Base compares
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. Columbus Air Force Base's 1.4 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Mississippi and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lowndes County
11 other systems share Lowndes County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Columbus Air Force Base. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Columbus Light & Water | 23,616 | 0.5 ppb |
| East Lowndes W/A B West-Old Yorkville Rd | 7,355 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Lowndes W/A #2-Huckleberry | 7,035 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Caledonia | 6,589 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Lowndes #4-Herman-Vaughn | 5,678 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Lowndes W/A A East-Old Yorkville | 4,778 | 0 (not detected) |
| Prairie Land Water Association, Inc | 2,500 | 5.8 ppb |
| East Lowndes W/A #1-Lee Stokes | 2,209 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Lowndes W/A | 1,230 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Crawford | 942 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Columbus Afb, 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 Columbus Air Force Base 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.