North Lee W/A-Beech Springs, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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 Lee W/A-Beech Springs at a glance
North Lee W/A-Beech Springs serves about 2,556 people through 968 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 Lee County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0410041; phone on file: 662-869-1223. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.6 ppb from 4.1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for North Lee W/A-Beech Springs is 4.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
Against other Mississippi systems
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 Lee W/A-Beech Springs's 0.5 ppb sits at the 24th percentile in Mississippi and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
22 other systems share Lee County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than North Lee W/A-Beech Springs. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Tupelo | 37,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Saltillo | 6,766 | 0.5 ppb |
| Mooreville-Richmond W/A #1 | 3,807 | 0 (not detected) |
| Old Union Water System | 3,749 | 0.7 ppb |
| Town Of Guntown | 3,577 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mooreville Richmond #3 | 3,419 | 1 ppb |
| Mooreville-Richmond W/A #2 | 3,200 | 2.7 ppb |
| City Of Verona | 2,792 | 0.55 ppb |
| North Lee W/A #1-Barnes Crosng | 2,672 | 0.9 ppb |
| City Point Water Association | 2,479 | 0.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Saltillo, 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 Lee W/A-Beech Springs 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.