Mt Gilead-Improve Water Assn, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Mt Gilead-Improve Water Assn at a glance
Mt Gilead-Improve Water Assn serves about 2,416 people through 915 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 Marion County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0460012. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mt Gilead-Improve Water Assn is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Mt Gilead-Improve 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. Mt Gilead-Improve Water Assn's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 12th percentile in Mississippi and the 32nd 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 Marion County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mt Gilead-Improve 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 Columbia | 5,900 | 1.7 ppb |
| Hub Water Association | 3,260 | 0.5 ppb |
| Bunker Hill Water Association | 2,700 | 5.1 ppb |
| Kokomo-Shiloh Water Assn. | 2,344 | 0.5 ppb |
| Lampton Water Association | 1,983 | 0.5 ppb |
| Highway 98 East Water Assn. | 1,632 | 0.5 ppb |
| West Marion Water Association | 1,571 | 0.5 ppb |
| Foxworth Water & Sewerage Assn | 710 | 1.8 ppb |
| Community Water Association | 320 | 1.5 ppb |
| Morgantown Water Association | 224 | 3.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Mt Gilead-Improve 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 Mt Gilead-Improve Water Assn 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.