Hays Creek W/A-New Liberty, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 ppb (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. 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 Hays Creek W/A-New Liberty
Hays Creek W/A-New Liberty serves about 193 people through 73 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: MS0490017; phone on file: 662-283-3506. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Hays Creek W/A-New Liberty's lead record
Against the period ending 2017 (2.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hays Creek W/A-New Liberty is 2.3 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.3 ppb |
How Hays Creek W/A-New Liberty compares
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-New Liberty's 1.4 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Mississippi and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Montgomery County
16 other systems share Montgomery County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hays Creek W/A-New Liberty. 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) |
What to do in your house
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-New Liberty 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.