North Lee W/A-Hushpuppy, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
North Lee W/A-Hushpuppy at a glance
North Lee W/A-Hushpuppy serves about 470 people through 178 service connections, which makes it a very 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: MS0410042; 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
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for North Lee W/A-Hushpuppy is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.5 ppb |
How North Lee W/A-Hushpuppy 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 Lee W/A-Hushpuppy's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 3rd percentile in Mississippi and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
22 other systems share Lee County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than North Lee W/A-Hushpuppy. 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 |
| North Lee W/A-Beech Springs | 2,556 | 0.5 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in North Lee W/A-Hushpuppy'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 North Lee W/A-Hushpuppy 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.