Lake City Water Assn-West, 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 Lake City Water Assn-West
Lake City Water Assn-West serves about 929 people through 352 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 Yazoo County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0820015; phone on file: 662-746-5687. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.7 ppb from 1.7 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lake City Water Assn-West is 2.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 ppb |
How Lake City Water Assn-West 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. Lake City Water Assn-West's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Mississippi and the 26th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Yazoo County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lake City Water Assn-West. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Yazoo City | 9,913 | 0.6 ppb |
| Central Yazoo #1 Fletchers Ch. | 2,482 | 0.7 ppb |
| Central Yazoo #3 Mechanicsbrg | 1,927 | 0.8 ppb |
| Central Yazoo W/A #5 | 1,618 | 0.94 ppb |
| Hilton Heights Water Assn #1 | 1,336 | 4 ppb |
| Central Yazoo #4-Benton | 1,225 | 0.7 ppb |
| Casey Jones Water Assn. | 1,146 | 1.9 ppb |
| Lake City Water Assn-East | 956 | 0 (not detected) |
| Midway W/A #3 | 739 | 1.8 ppb |
| Midway W/A #1 | 552 | 1.9 ppb |
Next steps for Yazoo City, MS
Look up your address in Lake City Water Assn-West'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 Lake City Water Assn-West 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.