Erata Water Association, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
Who runs the water here
Erata Water Association serves about 818 people through 310 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 Jones County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0340004; phone on file: 601-649-0009. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Erata Water Association's lead record
That is down 1.6 ppb from 1.6 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Erata Water Association is 11.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 11.9 ppb over 10 |
How Erata Water Association 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. Erata Water Association's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th 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
20 other systems share Jones County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Erata 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 Laurel | 18,100 | 1.4 ppb |
| Southwest Jones W/A-North | 6,690 | 2.4 ppb |
| Pleasant Ridge W/A | 5,808 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Ellisville | 4,600 | 8.2 ppb |
| J P Utility District | 3,839 | 1 ppb |
| Calhoun Water Association | 3,730 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glade Waterworks Assn | 3,340 | 0.7 ppb |
| Moselle Water Association | 3,002 | 0.67 ppb |
| M & M Water Association | 3,000 | 0.7 ppb |
| Sharon Water Works | 2,769 | 2.3 ppb |
Next steps for Laurel, MS
Look up your address in Erata Water Association'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 Erata 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.