Prairie Land Water Association, Inc, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.8 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.
Who runs the water here
Prairie Land Water Association, Inc serves about 2,500 people through 810 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 Lowndes County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0440096; phone on file: 662-245-1150. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4.3 ppb from 1.5 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Prairie Land Water Association, Inc is 5.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.5 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. Prairie Land Water Association, Inc's 5.8 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Mississippi and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Lowndes County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Prairie Land Water Association, Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Columbus Light & Water | 23,616 | 0.5 ppb |
| East Lowndes W/A B West-Old Yorkville Rd | 7,355 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Lowndes W/A #2-Huckleberry | 7,035 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Caledonia | 6,589 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Lowndes #4-Herman-Vaughn | 5,678 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Lowndes W/A A East-Old Yorkville | 4,778 | 0 (not detected) |
| Columbus Air Force Base | 3,300 | 1.4 ppb |
| East Lowndes W/A #1-Lee Stokes | 2,209 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Lowndes W/A | 1,230 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Crawford | 942 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Columbus, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Columbus, 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 Prairie Land Water Association, Inc 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.