Kossuth W/A #3-Pine Mountain, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 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.
Kossuth W/A #3-Pine Mountain at a glance
Kossuth W/A #3-Pine Mountain serves about 5,830 people through 2,215 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Alcorn County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0020007; phone on file: 662-287-4310. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.9 ppb from 2.6 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kossuth W/A #3-Pine Mountain is 3.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.6 ppb |
How Kossuth W/A #3-Pine Mountain 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. Kossuth W/A #3-Pine Mountain's 0.7 ppb sits at the 36th percentile in Mississippi and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Alcorn County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kossuth W/A #3-Pine Mountain. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Corinth | 15,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Farmington Water Association | 6,925 | 1.7 ppb |
| Alcorn W/A #1-Indian Springs | 5,456 | 0.6 ppb |
| Prentiss-Alcorn Water Assn | 2,318 | 0.6 ppb |
| Alcorn W/A #2-Biggersville | 1,365 | 1.1 ppb |
| Kossuth W/A #2-Bethlehem | 1,245 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Rienzi | 927 | 0.8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Corinth, 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 Kossuth W/A #3-Pine Mountain 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.