Janice W/A #2-South, MS
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 13 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Janice W/A #2-South
Janice W/A #2-South serves about 227 people through 86 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 Perry County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0560008; phone on file: 601-598-2262. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Janice W/A #2-South's lead record
That is up 2.6 ppb from 10.4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Janice W/A #2-South is 13 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 10.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 8.7 ppb |
Against other Mississippi systems
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. Janice W/A #2-South's 13 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Mississippi and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Perry County
9 other systems share Perry County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Janice W/A #2-South. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| N E Perry Utl Assn-#1 | 2,619 | 0.6 ppb |
| Runnelstown-North | 1,968 | 3.6 ppb |
| Town Of Beaumont | 1,106 | 1.5 ppb |
| Town Of Richton | 920 | 1 ppb |
| Little Creek Water Association | 654 | 5.9 ppb |
| Janice W/A #1 | 602 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of New Augusta | 570 | 2.4 ppb |
| Arlington W/A | 533 | 0.5 ppb |
| Arlington W/A-Hintonville | 488 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Brooklyn, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Brooklyn, 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 Janice W/A #2-South 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.