Morris Water Association, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 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
Morris Water Association serves about 887 people through 336 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 Smith County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0650005; phone on file: 601-467-2380. 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 (1.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Morris Water Association is 1.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.4 ppb |
How Morris 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. Morris Water Association's 1.4 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Mississippi and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Smith County
12 other systems share Smith County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Morris Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Taylorsville | 2,075 | 0.7 ppb |
| City Of Raleigh | 1,901 | 0.7 ppb |
| Center Ridge Water Association | 1,708 | 1 ppb |
| Lorena-Lemon-Burns Water Assn | 995 | 0.5 ppb |
| Town Of Polkville-Water Dept | 950 | 2 ppb |
| Traxler Water Association | 855 | 2.1 ppb |
| White Oak Water Association | 747 | 1.1 ppb |
| Sylvarena Water Association | 721 | 5 ppb |
| Pineville Water Association #2 | 615 | 2.1 ppb |
| Town Of Mize | 568 | 0.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mize, 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 Morris 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.