Hays Creek W/A-Minerva, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Hays Creek W/A-Minerva serves about 372 people through 141 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: MS0490016; phone on file: 662-283-3506. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 4.5 ppb from 4.5 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hays Creek W/A-Minerva is 4.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.7 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-Minerva's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in Mississippi and the 20th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Montgomery County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hays Creek W/A-Minerva. 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) |
Your move
Look up your address in Hays Creek W/A-Minerva's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. 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-Minerva 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.