Plum Point Community Water Assn, 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 Plum Point Community Water Assn
Plum Point Community Water Assn serves about 148 people through 54 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 Panola County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0540032; phone on file: 662-609-7801. 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 2025 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Plum Point Community Water Assn is 20.4 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, 4 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 19.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 20.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 15.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 20.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 7.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 9.7 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. Plum Point Community Water Assn's 1 ppb sits at the 47th percentile in Mississippi and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
19 other systems share Panola County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Plum Point Community Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Batesville | 7,463 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Sardis | 3,439 | 0.9 ppb |
| North Panola Water District | 2,145 | 1.2 ppb |
| Hotophia Water Association | 2,086 | 1.13 ppb |
| Independence Water Association | 2,035 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pope-Courtland W/A-North | 1,713 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sardis Lake Community W/A | 1,521 | 0.5 ppb |
| Enon-Locke-Curtis Water Assn | 1,460 | 1.9 ppb |
| Town Of Como | 1,279 | 0.99 ppb |
| Eureka Water Association | 1,172 | 0.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pope, 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 Plum Point Community Water Assn whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2700 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.