North Haven Water Association, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.6 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.
North Haven Water Association at a glance
North Haven Water Association serves about 930 people through 355 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 Union County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0730008; phone on file: 662-316-2303. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
North Haven Water Association's lead record
That is down 8.2 ppb from 11.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for North Haven Water Association is 11.8 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (3 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 11.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 11.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 11.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.6 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. North Haven Water Association's 3.6 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Mississippi and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Union County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than North Haven Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of New Albany | 8,900 | 2.69 ppb |
| Wallerville Water Association | 2,886 | 0.5 ppb |
| Ingomar Water Association | 2,782 | 1.8 ppb |
| Keownville Rural Water Assn | 2,663 | 1.1 ppb |
| Town Of Myrtle | 2,037 | 0.8 ppb |
| Blue Springs W/A | 1,840 | 0.8 ppb |
| Hwy 30 West Water Association | 1,716 | 0.8 ppb |
| Mud Creek Water Association #4 | 1,243 | 0.6 ppb |
| Bethlehem Water Association | 937 | 1 ppb |
| Alpine Water Association | 866 | 1.3 ppb |
Next steps for New Albany, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Albany, 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 North Haven 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.