Cumberland Water Assn, 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.
Cumberland Water Assn at a glance
Cumberland Water Assn serves about 715 people through 271 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 Webster County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0780003; phone on file: 662-263-7579. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Cumberland Water Assn's lead record
That is down 4.4 ppb from 4.4 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cumberland Water Assn is 4.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 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. Cumberland Water Assn's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 4th percentile in Mississippi and the 25th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Webster County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cumberland Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Eupora | 5,586 | 1.2 ppb |
| Savannah Water Association #1 | 1,434 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tomnolen Water Assn, Inc | 1,140 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Mathiston | 1,090 | 2.8 ppb |
| Sapa Water System | 842 | 1.7 ppb |
| Mantee Water Association | 486 | 110 ppb |
| Cadaretta Water Association | 445 | 0.9 ppb |
| Webster Center Water Assn | 416 | 1.3 ppb |
| Spring Valley Water Assn | 304 | 2 ppb |
| Mt Zion Water Association | 288 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Cumberland Water Assn'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 Cumberland Water Assn 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.