North Lauderdale W/A, Inc, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Lauderdale W/A, Inc at a glance
North Lauderdale W/A, Inc serves about 10,544 people through 3,994 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Lauderdale County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0380006; phone on file: 601-681-6157. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.3 ppb from 1.3 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for North Lauderdale W/A, Inc is 2.6 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.1 ppb |
How North Lauderdale W/A, Inc 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. North Lauderdale W/A, Inc's 2.6 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Mississippi and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Lauderdale County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than North Lauderdale W/A, Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Meridian | 34,466 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nts Utility Association | 5,103 | 1.3 ppb |
| Clarkdale Water Assn # 1 | 4,500 | 0.7 ppb |
| Long Creek Water Assn #2 | 3,977 | 0.6 ppb |
| Toomsuba Water Association | 3,828 | 0.5 ppb |
| Collinsville Water Assn | 3,403 | 0 (not detected) |
| Long Creek Water Assn #1 | 2,814 | 0.8 ppb |
| Meridian Naval Air Station | 2,800 | 0.5 ppb |
| Southwest Lauderdale W/A | 2,724 | 5 ppb |
| Russell Utilities Inc | 2,130 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bailey, 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 Lauderdale W/A, Inc 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.