Piney Woods Water Association, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Piney Woods Water Association serves about 400 people through 159 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 Noxubee County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0520006; phone on file: 662-708-1279. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Piney Woods Water Association is 1.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.2 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. Piney Woods Water Association's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in Mississippi and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Noxubee County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Piney Woods Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Macon Electric & Water Dept. | 5,174 | 1.44 ppb |
| Town Of Brooksville | 2,816 | 0.6 ppb |
| Town Of Shuqualak | 989 | 3.5 ppb |
| Mashulaville Water District Inc | 478 | 1.29 ppb |
| Shuqualak-Butler W/A | 473 | 1.04 ppb |
Next steps for Macon, MS
Look up your address in Piney Woods Water Association'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 Piney Woods 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.