Golden Triangle W/A #2, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.9 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Golden Triangle W/A #2 at a glance
Golden Triangle W/A #2 serves about 187 people through 71 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 Clay County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0130019; phone on file: 662-327-3008. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Golden Triangle W/A #2's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Golden Triangle W/A #2 is 0.9 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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. Golden Triangle W/A #2's 0.9 ppb sits at the 42nd percentile in Mississippi and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Clay County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Golden Triangle W/A #2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of West Point | 15,062 | 0 (not detected) |
| Siloam W/A #2-Griffith Well | 2,054 | 1.6 ppb |
| Golden Triangle Water Assn #1 | 2,033 | 1.5 ppb |
| Sun Creek Water Inc-Pheba | 1,923 | 0.9 ppb |
| Siloam W/A #6-Una System | 1,489 | 0.6 ppb |
| Siloam W/A #3-Beasley Well | 810 | 0.7 ppb |
| Siloam W/A #4-Pine Bluff | 515 | 1.2 ppb |
Next steps for West Point, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; West Point, 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 Golden Triangle W/A #2 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2475 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.