Pilgrim Rest Water Association, MS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 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.
Pilgrim Rest Water Association at a glance
Pilgrim Rest Water Association serves about 359 people through 136 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 Leake County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0400007; phone on file: 601-540-7795. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pilgrim Rest Water Association is 20.2 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 20.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 20.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 2.6 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. Pilgrim Rest Water Association's 1.4 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Mississippi and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Leake County
11 other systems share Leake County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pilgrim Rest Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Carthage | 4,901 | 1 ppb |
| Freeny W/A #1 | 2,962 | 0.7 ppb |
| Freeny W/A #2-Rosebud System | 2,550 | 0.5 ppb |
| Southwest Leake Water Assn | 2,463 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Providence Water Assn | 2,226 | 2 ppb |
| Marydell Water Association | 1,573 | 1 ppb |
| Edinburg Domestic Water Association | 1,375 | 0.8 ppb |
| Thomastown Water Association | 908 | 0.6 ppb |
| Town Of Walnut Grove | 510 | 1.8 ppb |
| Goshen Water Association | 380 | 0.3 ppb |
Next steps for Carthage, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Carthage, 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 Pilgrim Rest 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.