Grenada-Bogue Basin/Gore Sprgs, MS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Grenada-Bogue Basin/Gore Sprgs
Grenada-Bogue Basin/Gore Sprgs serves about 1,832 people through 694 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Grenada County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0220062; phone on file: 662-227-3415. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.1 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Grenada-Bogue Basin/Gore Sprgs is 35.7 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 35.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 35.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 1.2 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. Grenada-Bogue Basin/Gore Sprgs's 2.1 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Mississippi and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Grenada County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Grenada-Bogue Basin/Gore Sprgs. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Grenada | 12,762 | 0.8 ppb |
| G T & Y Water District Inc | 3,907 | 0.9 ppb |
| Poor House W/A #1 | 2,806 | 0.29 ppb |
| Grenada Co W/S-Girl Scout | 2,410 | 0.8 ppb |
| Grenada Ind Pk & Airport Water | 1,991 | 2.9 ppb |
| Grenada Co W/S-Mondy Rd/Elliot | 1,964 | 0.6 ppb |
| Grenada-Bogue Basin/Holcomb | 1,837 | 0.8 ppb |
| Poor House W/A #2 | 678 | 0.64 ppb |
| Youngs W/S Dist #1-Dividing R | 388 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for Grenada, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Grenada, 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 Grenada-Bogue Basin/Gore Sprgs 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.