Kipling W/A #3-Old Scooba Rd, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Kipling W/A #3-Old Scooba Rd
Kipling W/A #3-Old Scooba Rd serves about 77 people through 29 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 Kemper County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0350019; phone on file: 601-743-5800. 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 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kipling W/A #3-Old Scooba Rd is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Kipling W/A #3-Old Scooba Rd 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. Kipling W/A #3-Old Scooba Rd's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 0th percentile in Mississippi and the 7th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Kemper County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kipling W/A #3-Old Scooba Rd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kipling W/A #1 | 2,637 | 2.3 ppb |
| Porterville W/A | 2,445 | 0.52 ppb |
| North West Kemper W/A #4 | 1,671 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nw Kemper W/A #1-Preston | 1,618 | 3.7 ppb |
| Nw Kemper W/A #2- Cleveland | 1,196 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Dekalb | 985 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Scooba | 744 | 0.9 ppb |
| Nw Kemper W/A #3-Kynard | 407 | 0.28 ppb |
| Townsend Water Association | 238 | 0.3 ppb |
| Kipling W/A #4 | 169 | 0.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Kipling W/A #3-Old Scooba Rd's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Kipling W/A #3-Old Scooba Rd 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.