Friendship Community W/A, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6 ppb (monitoring period 2018-2018). 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
Friendship Community W/A serves about 2,434 people through 922 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 Pike County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0570002; phone on file: 601-684-8130. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Friendship Community W/A's lead record
That is up 2.6 ppb from 3.4 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Friendship Community W/A is 6 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.4 ppb |
How Friendship Community W/A 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. Friendship Community W/A's 6 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Mississippi and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Pike County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Friendship Community W/A. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Mccomb | 12,041 | 5.6 ppb |
| North Pike Water Association | 5,359 | 1.5 ppb |
| Sunnyhill Water Association | 3,833 | 1.1 ppb |
| Magnolia Rural Water Assn | 2,922 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Magnolia | 2,307 | 1.4 ppb |
| East Pike Water Assn. | 2,107 | 0 (not detected) |
| Homestead Water Association | 1,832 | 1.2 ppb |
| Town Of Summit | 1,502 | 1.6 ppb |
| Sw Ms Comm College | 500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Osyka | 420 | 0.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mccomb, 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 Friendship Community W/A 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.