Mccarley Water Association, Inc, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
About Mccarley Water Association, Inc
Mccarley Water Association, Inc serves about 660 people through 255 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 Carroll County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0080005; phone on file: 662-809-4306. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 6.7 ppb from 7.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mccarley Water Association, Inc is 7.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 7.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.7 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. Mccarley Water Association, Inc's 0.5 ppb sits at the 21st percentile in Mississippi and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Carroll County
5 other systems share Carroll County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mccarley Water Association, Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pelucia Rural W/A #2-Grav Hill | 3,142 | 0.3 ppb |
| Town Of Vaiden | 2,497 | 0.5 ppb |
| Town Of North Carrollton | 2,392 | 0.8 ppb |
| Town Of Carrollton | 1,122 | 2.2 ppb |
| Black Hawk Water Assn #1 | 390 | 1.2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mccarley, 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 Mccarley Water Association, Inc 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.