Longview Water Association, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (monitoring period 2018-2020). 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.
Longview Water Association at a glance
Longview Water Association serves about 500 people through 259 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 Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0530009; phone on file: 662-323-4027. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Longview Water Association's lead record
Against the period ending 2017 (0.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Longview Water Association is 1.5 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.9 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. Longview Water Association's 1.5 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Mississippi and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Oktibbeha County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Longview 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 Starkville | 32,027 | 1.7 ppb |
| Ms State University | 15,000 | 1.6 ppb |
| Clayton Village W/A #1-East | 4,984 | 3.31 ppb |
| Oktoc Water Association #1 | 2,587 | 1.3 ppb |
| Adaton W/A #1-Josey Creek | 2,170 | 1.5 ppb |
| Talking Warrior Water Assn #1 | 1,539 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chapel Hill-Pleasant Grove W/A | 1,175 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sessums Water Association | 1,117 | 0.9 ppb |
| Black Jack Water Assn #1 | 1,024 | 0.5 ppb |
| Rock Hill Water Association | 915 | 1.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Starkville, 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 Longview 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.