Moore Bayou Water Association, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.2 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.
Who runs the water here
Moore Bayou Water Association serves about 438 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: MS0140012; phone on file: 662-326-3322. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2017 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Moore Bayou Water Association is 2.2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.4 ppb |
How Moore Bayou Water Association 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. Moore Bayou Water Association's 2.2 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Mississippi and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Coahoma County
16 other systems share Coahoma County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Moore Bayou Water Association. 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) |
| Rena Lara Water Association | 436 | 0 (not detected) |
| Moore Bayou W/A #2 | 420 | 3.2 ppb |
| 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 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.