Lena Water Association, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 ppb (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Lena Water Association serves about 250 people through 91 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 Leake County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0400005; phone on file: 601-826-5675. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.5 ppb from 2.9 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lena Water Association is 4.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.2 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Lena Water Association's 1.4 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Mississippi and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Leake County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lena Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Carthage | 4,901 | 1 ppb |
| Freeny W/A #1 | 2,962 | 0.7 ppb |
| Freeny W/A #2-Rosebud System | 2,550 | 0.5 ppb |
| Southwest Leake Water Assn | 2,463 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Providence Water Assn | 2,226 | 2 ppb |
| Marydell Water Association | 1,573 | 1 ppb |
| Edinburg Domestic Water Association | 1,375 | 0.8 ppb |
| Thomastown Water Association | 908 | 0.6 ppb |
| Town Of Walnut Grove | 510 | 1.8 ppb |
| Goshen Water Association | 380 | 0.3 ppb |
Next steps for Lena, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lena, 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 Lena Water Association 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.