Flint Creek Utility Assn, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.4 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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
Flint Creek Utility Assn serves about 346 people through 131 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 Stone County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0660020; phone on file: 601-716-7762. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Flint Creek Utility Assn's lead record
That is down 1.1 ppb from 1.5 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Flint Creek Utility Assn is 1.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Flint Creek Utility Assn's 0.4 ppb sits at the 20th percentile in Mississippi and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Stone County
8 other systems share Stone County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Flint Creek Utility Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Wiggins | 4,300 | 0.9 ppb |
| Magnolia Water Association | 2,107 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carnes Water Association #2 | 2,025 | 0.7 ppb |
| Sunflower Utility Assc Inc | 1,880 | 1.2 ppb |
| New Zion Utilities, Inc | 1,803 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mchenry Utility Assn, Inc | 1,653 | 0.6 ppb |
| Ms Gulf Coast Community College | 600 | 0.5 ppb |
| Stone County Utility Authority | 116 | 0.3 ppb |
Next steps for Wiggins, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wiggins, 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 Flint Creek Utility 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. 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.