Poplar Springs Water District, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 ppb (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. 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.
Poplar Springs Water District at a glance
Poplar Springs Water District serves about 1,188 people through 450 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 Simpson County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0640012; phone on file: 601-954-1676. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2017 (0.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Poplar Springs Water District is 0.8 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.8 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. Poplar Springs Water District's 0.6 ppb sits at the 28th percentile in Mississippi and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Simpson County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Poplar Springs Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Okatoma Water Association #2 | 5,866 | 0.7 ppb |
| Smiths Crossing Water Assn | 4,480 | 10.3 ppb |
| Okatoma Water Association #1 | 3,981 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Magee | 3,526 | 12 ppb |
| New Hope Water Association | 2,587 | 0.5 ppb |
| Highway 28 Water Association | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Mendenhall | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shivers Water Association | 2,200 | 1.7 ppb |
| Harrisville W/A | 1,967 | 1.6 ppb |
| Boggan Ridge W/A | 1,500 | 0.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Brandon, 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 Poplar Springs Water District 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.