Hurricane Creek Water Assn, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 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.
About Hurricane Creek Water Assn
Hurricane Creek Water Assn serves about 760 people through 288 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 Lafayette County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0360009; phone on file: 662-236-3759. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hurricane Creek Water Assn is 3.6 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0.6 ppb |
How Hurricane Creek Water Assn 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. Hurricane Creek Water Assn's 0.5 ppb sits at the 21st percentile in Mississippi and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Lafayette County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hurricane Creek Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Oxford | 28,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| University Of Mississippi | 26,874 | 0 (not detected) |
| Anchor Water Association | 2,051 | 1.9 ppb |
| Taylor Water Association | 1,962 | 1 ppb |
| Westover Water Association, Inc | 1,771 | 2.2 ppb |
| Hopewell Water Association | 1,684 | 0.6 ppb |
| East Oxford Water Association | 1,544 | 1.24 ppb |
| Harmontown Water Association Inc | 1,393 | 2.4 ppb |
| Campground Water Assn | 1,175 | 0 (not detected) |
| College Hill Water Assn | 1,146 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Abbeville, 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 Hurricane Creek Water Assn whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2257.3 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.