Copiah W/A - Hazlehurst, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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 - Hazlehurst at a glance
Copiah W/A - Hazlehurst serves about 2,574 people through 975 service connections, which makes it a 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: MS0150002; phone on file: 601-892-3738. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.7 ppb from 2.7 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Copiah W/A - Hazlehurst is 2.7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2.7 ppb |
How Copiah W/A - Hazlehurst 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 - Hazlehurst's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 13th percentile in Mississippi and the 32nd 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 - Hazlehurst. 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) |
| 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) |
| Copiah W/A - Bayou Pierre #2 | 430 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Gallman, MS
Look up your address in Copiah W/A - Hazlehurst'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 - Hazlehurst 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.