Hotophia Water Association, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.13 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 Hotophia Water Association
Hotophia Water Association serves about 2,086 people through 790 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 Panola County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0540009; phone on file: 662-609-1703. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2017 (1.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hotophia Water Association is 1.6 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.13 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.6 ppb |
How Hotophia Water Association 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. Hotophia Water Association's 1.13 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in Mississippi and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
19 other systems share Panola County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hotophia Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Batesville | 7,463 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Sardis | 3,439 | 0.9 ppb |
| North Panola Water District | 2,145 | 1.2 ppb |
| Independence Water Association | 2,035 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pope-Courtland W/A-North | 1,713 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sardis Lake Community W/A | 1,521 | 0.5 ppb |
| Enon-Locke-Curtis Water Assn | 1,460 | 1.9 ppb |
| Town Of Como | 1,279 | 0.99 ppb |
| Eureka Water Association | 1,172 | 0.5 ppb |
| Hebron Water Association | 1,146 | 1.4 ppb |
Next steps for Batesville, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Batesville, 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 Hotophia Water Association 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.