H & H Water System, Inc, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.9 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.
About H & H Water System, Inc
H & H Water System, Inc serves about 3,036 people through 1,139 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 Scott County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0620003; phone on file: 601-625-0025. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
H & H Water System, Inc's lead record
That is up 1.5 ppb from 1.4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for H & H Water System, Inc is 2.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.7 ppb |
Against other Mississippi systems
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. H & H Water System, Inc's 2.9 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Mississippi and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Scott County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than H & H Water System, Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sebastopol Water Association | 6,207 | 1.2 ppb |
| City Of Forest | 5,430 | 2.2 ppb |
| City Of Morton | 3,400 | 0.5 ppb |
| Steele-Ringgold W/A #1 | 2,965 | 1.5 ppb |
| Steele-Ringgold W/A #2 | 2,883 | 0.8 ppb |
| Homewood Water Association | 1,877 | 0.9 ppb |
| C & C W/A | 1,808 | 1.3 ppb |
| L & F Water Association | 1,803 | 1.5 ppb |
| Homestead Water Association | 1,251 | 1.4 ppb |
| High Hill Water Association | 600 | 1.1 ppb |
Next steps for Forest, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Forest, 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 H & H Water System, Inc 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.