Holmes Jr College, MS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Holmes Jr College serves about 1,052 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Holmes County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0260010; phone on file: 662-472-9015. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 6 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Holmes Jr College is 20 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 7 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.09 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 6.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.4 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. Holmes Jr College's 1 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Mississippi and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Holmes County
19 other systems share Holmes County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Holmes Jr College. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Durant | 2,932 | 0.6 ppb |
| Lebanon W/A-West | 1,742 | 0.8 ppb |
| Sweet Home Water & Sewer Dist | 1,695 | 2.7 ppb |
| Town Of Tchula | 1,642 | 1.3 ppb |
| City Of Lexington | 1,600 | 0.7 ppb |
| Town Of Pickens | 1,587 | 0.9 ppb |
| Acona Water Association #1 | 1,373 | 0.8 ppb |
| West Holmes Water Association | 1,245 | 2.1 ppb |
| Town Of Goodman | 1,188 | 1.5 ppb |
| Harland Creek Community W/A-B | 1,177 | 2.3 ppb |
Next steps for Goodman, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Goodman, 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 Holmes Jr College 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.