Enon-Locke-Curtis Water Assn, MS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 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 Enon-Locke-Curtis Water Assn
Enon-Locke-Curtis Water Assn serves about 1,460 people through 553 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 Panola County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0540006; phone on file: 662-934-0690. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (1.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Enon-Locke-Curtis Water Assn is 47 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 47 ppb over 15 |
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. Enon-Locke-Curtis Water Assn's 1.9 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Mississippi and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Panola County
19 other systems share Panola County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Enon-Locke-Curtis 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 Batesville | 7,463 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Sardis | 3,439 | 0.9 ppb |
| North Panola Water District | 2,145 | 1.2 ppb |
| Hotophia Water Association | 2,086 | 1.13 ppb |
| Independence Water Association | 2,035 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pope-Courtland W/A-North | 1,713 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sardis Lake Community W/A | 1,521 | 0.5 ppb |
| Town Of Como | 1,279 | 0.99 ppb |
| Eureka Water Association | 1,172 | 0.5 ppb |
| Hebron Water Association | 1,146 | 1.4 ppb |
Next steps for Marks, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Marks, 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 Enon-Locke-Curtis 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.