Hays Creek W/A-Legion Lake Rd, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 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.
Who runs the water here
Hays Creek W/A-Legion Lake Rd serves about 82 people through 31 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 Montgomery County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0490018; phone on file: 662-283-3506. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Hays Creek W/A-Legion Lake Rd's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (2.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hays Creek W/A-Legion Lake Rd is 2.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 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. Hays Creek W/A-Legion Lake Rd's 1.3 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in Mississippi and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Montgomery County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hays Creek W/A-Legion Lake Rd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Winona | 5,071 | 3.2 ppb |
| Town Of Kilmichael | 1,341 | 1.2 ppb |
| Town Of Duck Hill | 924 | 1.3 ppb |
| South Winona Water Association | 874 | 0.8 ppb |
| Hays Creek W/A - Alva | 750 | 4.8 ppb |
| Hays Creek W/A-Minerva #2 | 750 | 0.6 ppb |
| North District 1 Water Assn. | 700 | 1.6 ppb |
| Poplar Creek Water Association | 634 | 1.1 ppb |
| 51-55 Water Association | 441 | 0.7 ppb |
| Hays Creek W/A-Lodi | 441 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Winona, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Winona, 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 Hays Creek W/A-Legion Lake Rd 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.