Pearl River Central W/A-Bi Co, MS
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 16.6 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Pearl River Central W/A-Bi Co serves about 4,406 people through 1,669 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Pearl River County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0550058; phone on file: 601-798-3103. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 9.6 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pearl River Central W/A-Bi Co is 16.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 16.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 7 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.5 ppb |
How Pearl River Central W/A-Bi Co 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. Pearl River Central W/A-Bi Co's 16.6 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Mississippi and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Pearl River County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pearl River Central W/A-Bi Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Picayune Utilities, City Of | 11,859 | 0.7 ppb |
| Pearl River Central W/A | 11,830 | 0.7 ppb |
| Center W/A-Caesar System | 6,455 | 0.6 ppb |
| Pearl River Central W/A-Henley Field | 4,438 | 1.6 ppb |
| City Of Poplarville | 3,334 | 1 ppb |
| Nicholson Water Association | 3,001 | 0.7 ppb |
| Hide-A-Way Lake Water System | 2,727 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pearl River Central W/A-North | 2,278 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spring Hill Water Assn. | 1,642 | 0.67 ppb |
| Prcua-Picayune Water System | 979 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Pearl River Central W/A-Bi Co 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.