East Charleston Water Assn, MS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (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 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 East Charleston Water Assn
East Charleston Water Assn serves about 211 people through 80 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 Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0680004; phone on file: 662-417-8190. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
East Charleston Water Assn'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 East Charleston Water Assn is 16.8 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 16.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 16.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 1.9 ppb |
How East Charleston Water Assn 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. East Charleston Water Assn's 1 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in Mississippi and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Tallahatchie County
14 other systems share Tallahatchie County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than East Charleston Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Charleston Utilities | 3,100 | 0.7 ppb |
| North Tallahatchie W/A | 3,089 | 1.3 ppb |
| Blue Cane, Cowart & Tippo W/A. | 1,191 | 3.7 ppb |
| Town Of Tutwiler | 1,040 | 1.4 ppb |
| Cascilla Water Association | 837 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Tallahatchie Utl Assn | 713 | 0.7 ppb |
| Paynes Water Association | 531 | 1.2 ppb |
| Philipp Water Association | 518 | 5.3 ppb |
| Town Of Sumner | 517 | 1.1 ppb |
| Town Of Webb | 416 | 1.8 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Charleston, 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 East Charleston 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.