Fcwa - Pleasant Valley, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Fcwa - Pleasant Valley serves about 168 people through 56 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 Franklin County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0190014; phone on file: 601-384-2046. 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 2021 (0.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fcwa - Pleasant Valley is 1.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Fcwa - Pleasant Valley 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. Fcwa - Pleasant Valley's 1.4 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Mississippi and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Franklin County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fcwa - Pleasant Valley. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fcwa - Oldenburg | 1,803 | 1.7 ppb |
| Fcwa-South Meadville | 1,794 | 2.1 ppb |
| Sixtown Water Association | 828 | 1.4 ppb |
| Town Of Bude | 780 | 0.8 ppb |
| Fcwa-Hamburg | 636 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Meadville | 500 | 2.4 ppb |
| Providence Water Association | 435 | 1.6 ppb |
| Town Of Roxie | 395 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fcwa - Berrytown | 282 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Meadville, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Meadville, 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 Fcwa - Pleasant Valley 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.