Cross-Roads Water Association, MS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.6 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Cross-Roads Water Association at a glance
Cross-Roads Water Association serves about 1,125 people through 426 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 Calhoun County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0070005; phone on file: 662-983-8364. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 13.6 ppb from 17.2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cross-Roads Water Association is 17.2 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2025 | 17.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.5 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. Cross-Roads Water Association's 3.6 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Mississippi and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Calhoun County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Cross-Roads Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Bruce | 2,798 | 0.9 ppb |
| Mt Comfort W/A-Banner | 2,442 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Calhoun City | 2,101 | 1.6 ppb |
| Town Of Vardaman | 1,610 | 14.3 ppb |
| Mt Comfort W/A | 1,085 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Pittsboro | 1,077 | 1.9 ppb |
| Mt Comfort W/A-Mt Moriah | 1,011 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Derma | 957 | 0.7 ppb |
| Big Creek Water Association | 731 | 0 (not detected) |
| Poplar Springs W/A #1 | 645 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Calhoun City, 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 Cross-Roads Water Association 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.