Moore Bayou W/A #2, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.2 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.
About Moore Bayou W/A #2
Moore Bayou W/A #2 serves about 420 people through 168 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 Coahoma County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0140051; phone on file: 662-326-3322. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (2.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Moore Bayou W/A #2 is 3.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.6 ppb |
Against other Mississippi systems
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. Moore Bayou W/A #2's 3.2 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Mississippi and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Coahoma County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Moore Bayou W/A #2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clarksdale Public Utilities | 14,903 | 2.2 ppb |
| Coahoma Community College | 2,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Town Of Jonestown | 968 | 1.5 ppb |
| Town Of Friars Point | 858 | 0.6 ppb |
| Water Association Of Moon Lake | 739 | 0.8 ppb |
| Coahoma Utility Dist #2 | 645 | 3.2 ppb |
| Pine Grove Water Association | 457 | 0 (not detected) |
| Moore Bayou Water Association | 438 | 2.2 ppb |
| Rena Lara Water Association | 436 | 0 (not detected) |
| Moore Bayou W/A #3 | 378 | 0.8 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tutwiler, 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 Moore Bayou W/A #2 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1480 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.