French Camp Academy, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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
French Camp Academy serves about 143 people through 54 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Choctaw County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0100010; phone on file: 662-547-6482. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (2.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for French Camp Academy is 2.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.9 ppb |
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. French Camp Academy's 2.6 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Mississippi and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Choctaw County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than French Camp Academy. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Reform Water Association | 1,742 | 0.9 ppb |
| Town Of Ackerman | 1,594 | 1.7 ppb |
| French Camp W/A #1 | 1,478 | 1 ppb |
| Simpson Water Association #1 | 1,426 | 1.1 ppb |
| Pan Handle Water Association | 990 | 1 ppb |
| Choctaw Water Assn | 583 | 3.9 ppb |
| Town Of Weir | 560 | 1.4 ppb |
| Fentress Community W/S | 544 | 1.1 ppb |
| Union W/A | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pan Handle W/A #2 | 198 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Ethel, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ethel, 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 French Camp Academy 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.