Pope-Courtland W/A-North, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Pope-Courtland W/A-North at a glance
Pope-Courtland W/A-North serves about 1,713 people through 649 service connections, which makes it a 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: MS0540069; phone on file: 662-561-1009. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Pope-Courtland W/A-North's lead record
That is down 1.8 ppb from 1.8 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pope-Courtland W/A-North is 1.8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 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. Pope-Courtland W/A-North's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 9th percentile in Mississippi and the 30th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Panola County
19 other systems share Panola County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pope-Courtland W/A-North. 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) |
| 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 |
| Hebron Water Association | 1,146 | 1.4 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Pope-Courtland W/A-North'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 Pope-Courtland W/A-North 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.