Lincoln Rural W/A-Beauregard, 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.
Lincoln Rural W/A-Beauregard at a glance
Lincoln Rural W/A-Beauregard serves about 2,600 people through 985 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 Lincoln County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0430027; phone on file: 601-833-6449. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lincoln Rural W/A-Beauregard is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.2 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. Lincoln Rural W/A-Beauregard's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 13th percentile in Mississippi and the 32nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Lincoln County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lincoln Rural W/A-Beauregard. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Brookhaven | 12,513 | 2.7 ppb |
| Topisaw Creek | 5,349 | 1.3 ppb |
| Lincoln Rural W/A-Heucks Ret | 3,778 | 0.5 ppb |
| Lincoln Rural W/A-Pleasant Rid | 2,938 | 1.1 ppb |
| Lincoln Rural W/A-Zetus | 2,204 | 1.4 ppb |
| Bogue Chitto Water Association | 2,162 | 2.1 ppb |
| Lincoln Rural W/A-Old Red Star | 2,001 | 1.1 ppb |
Next steps for Brookhaven, MS
Look up your address in Lincoln Rural W/A-Beauregard'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 Lincoln Rural W/A-Beauregard 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.