Goshen Water Association, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.3 ppb (monitoring period 2018-2020). 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
Goshen Water Association serves about 380 people through 144 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 Leake County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0400004; phone on file: 601-416-5642. 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 2017 (0.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Goshen Water Association is 0.4 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.4 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. Goshen Water Association's 0.3 ppb sits at the 19th percentile in Mississippi and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Leake County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Goshen Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Carthage | 4,901 | 1 ppb |
| Freeny W/A #1 | 2,962 | 0.7 ppb |
| Freeny W/A #2-Rosebud System | 2,550 | 0.5 ppb |
| Southwest Leake Water Assn | 2,463 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Providence Water Assn | 2,226 | 2 ppb |
| Marydell Water Association | 1,573 | 1 ppb |
| Edinburg Domestic Water Association | 1,375 | 0.8 ppb |
| Thomastown Water Association | 908 | 0.6 ppb |
| Town Of Walnut Grove | 510 | 1.8 ppb |
| Pilgrim Rest Water Association | 359 | 1.4 ppb |
Next steps for Carthage, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Carthage, 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 Goshen Water Association 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.