Pleasant Ridge W/A, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Pleasant Ridge W/A at a glance
Pleasant Ridge W/A serves about 5,808 people through 2,201 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 Jones County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0340014; phone on file: 601-763-8515. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Pleasant Ridge W/A's lead record
That is down 3.9 ppb from 4.9 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pleasant Ridge W/A is 4.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.6 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Pleasant Ridge W/A's 1 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Mississippi and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Jones County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pleasant Ridge W/A. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Laurel | 18,100 | 1.4 ppb |
| Southwest Jones W/A-North | 6,690 | 2.4 ppb |
| City Of Ellisville | 4,600 | 8.2 ppb |
| J P Utility District | 3,839 | 1 ppb |
| Calhoun Water Association | 3,730 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glade Waterworks Assn | 3,340 | 0.7 ppb |
| Moselle Water Association | 3,002 | 0.67 ppb |
| M & M Water Association | 3,000 | 0.7 ppb |
| Sharon Water Works | 2,769 | 2.3 ppb |
| Powers Water Association | 2,413 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Laurel, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Laurel, 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 Pleasant Ridge W/A 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.