Pan Handle Water Association, MS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Pan Handle Water Association
Pan Handle Water Association serves about 990 people through 375 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 Choctaw County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0100006; phone on file: 662-674-9219. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Pan Handle Water Association's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pan Handle Water Association is 16.7 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 16.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Pan Handle Water Association 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. Pan Handle Water Association's 1 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Mississippi and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Choctaw County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pan Handle Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Reform Water Association | 1,742 | 0.9 ppb |
| Town Of Ackerman | 1,594 | 1.7 ppb |
| French Camp W/A #1 | 1,478 | 1 ppb |
| Simpson Water Association #1 | 1,426 | 1.1 ppb |
| Choctaw Water Assn | 583 | 3.9 ppb |
| Town Of Weir | 560 | 1.4 ppb |
| Fentress Community W/S | 544 | 1.1 ppb |
| Union W/A | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pan Handle W/A #2 | 198 | 1 ppb |
| French Camp Academy | 143 | 2.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ethel, 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 Pan Handle 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.