Copiah W/A - Bayou Pierre #2, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 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.
Copiah W/A - Bayou Pierre #2 at a glance
Copiah W/A - Bayou Pierre #2 serves about 430 people through 163 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Copiah County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0150020; phone on file: 601-892-3738. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Copiah W/A - Bayou Pierre #2's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Copiah W/A - Bayou Pierre #2 is 13.9 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 13.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 0.5 ppb |
How Copiah W/A - Bayou Pierre #2 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. Copiah W/A - Bayou Pierre #2's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in Mississippi and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Copiah County
10 other systems share Copiah County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Copiah W/A - Bayou Pierre #2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Crystal Springs Water Service | 5,961 | 0 (not detected) |
| Copiah-New Zion Water Assn,Inc | 3,791 | 1.8 ppb |
| Town Of Hazlehurst | 3,600 | 0.5 ppb |
| Northeast Copiah Water Assn | 3,020 | 0 (not detected) |
| Copiah W/A - Hazlehurst | 2,574 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Wesson | 1,891 | 0.5 ppb |
| Copiah W/A - Gallman | 1,566 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harmony Ridge Water Assn | 1,380 | 0.5 ppb |
| Copiah W/A - Bayou Pierre #1 | 1,246 | 0.8 ppb |
| Town Of Georgetown | 465 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Copiah W/A - Bayou Pierre #2'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 Copiah W/A - Bayou Pierre #2 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.