Porterville W/A-Kemper Springs, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.83 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.
Porterville W/A-Kemper Springs at a glance
Porterville W/A-Kemper Springs serves about 108 people through 41 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 Kemper County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0350024; phone on file: 662-476-9614. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Porterville W/A-Kemper Springs is 5 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.83 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.3 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. Porterville W/A-Kemper Springs's 0.83 ppb sits at the 42nd percentile in Mississippi and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Kemper County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Porterville W/A-Kemper Springs. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kipling W/A #1 | 2,637 | 2.3 ppb |
| Porterville W/A | 2,445 | 0.52 ppb |
| North West Kemper W/A #4 | 1,671 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nw Kemper W/A #1-Preston | 1,618 | 3.7 ppb |
| Nw Kemper W/A #2- Cleveland | 1,196 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Dekalb | 985 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Scooba | 744 | 0.9 ppb |
| Nw Kemper W/A #3-Kynard | 407 | 0.28 ppb |
| Townsend Water Association | 238 | 0.3 ppb |
| Kipling W/A #4 | 169 | 0.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Porterville, 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 Porterville W/A-Kemper Springs whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1482 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. 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.