Magnolia Rural Water Assn, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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 Magnolia Rural Water Assn
Magnolia Rural Water Assn serves about 2,922 people through 1,107 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 Pike County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0570015; phone on file: 601-783-2008. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Magnolia Rural Water Assn's lead record
That is down 1.7 ppb from 1.7 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Magnolia Rural Water Assn is 6.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 6.7 ppb |
How Magnolia Rural Water Assn 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. Magnolia Rural Water Assn's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in Mississippi and the 33rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Pike County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Magnolia Rural Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Mccomb | 12,041 | 5.6 ppb |
| North Pike Water Association | 5,359 | 1.5 ppb |
| Sunnyhill Water Association | 3,833 | 1.1 ppb |
| Friendship Community W/A | 2,434 | 6 ppb |
| City Of Magnolia | 2,307 | 1.4 ppb |
| East Pike Water Assn. | 2,107 | 0 (not detected) |
| Homestead Water Association | 1,832 | 1.2 ppb |
| Town Of Summit | 1,502 | 1.6 ppb |
| Sw Ms Comm College | 500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Osyka | 420 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for Magnolia, MS
Look up your address in Magnolia Rural Water Assn'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 Magnolia Rural Water Assn whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1820 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.