Darling Water Association, MS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.95 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
About Darling Water Association
Darling Water Association serves about 100 people through 75 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 Quitman County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0600004. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Darling Water Association's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Darling Water Association is 19 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.95 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 19 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Darling Water Association's 0.95 ppb sits at the 47th percentile in Mississippi and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Quitman County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Darling 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 Marks | 2,099 | 3.2 ppb |
| Town Of Lambert | 1,167 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Crowder | 682 | 3.3 ppb |
| Big Field Water Association | 580 | 5.2 ppb |
| South Lake Water Association | 570 | 1 ppb |
| South Quitman-S Lambert Utl | 528 | 1.6 ppb |
| West Lambert Water Association | 398 | 5.4 ppb |
| Town Of Sledge | 368 | 6.1 ppb |
| South Quitman-West Crowder | 185 | 0.7 ppb |
| Town Of Falcon | 124 | 1.4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Darling, 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 Darling Water Association whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1802.3 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.