Prcua-Hillsdale Water System, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 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.
Prcua-Hillsdale Water System at a glance
Prcua-Hillsdale Water System serves about 238 people through 90 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 Pearl River County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0550062; phone on file: 601-799-5259. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.6 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Prcua-Hillsdale Water System is 6.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.1 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. Prcua-Hillsdale Water System's 2.6 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Mississippi and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Pearl River County
13 other systems share Pearl River County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Prcua-Hillsdale Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Picayune Utilities, City Of | 11,859 | 0.7 ppb |
| Pearl River Central W/A | 11,830 | 0.7 ppb |
| Center W/A-Caesar System | 6,455 | 0.6 ppb |
| Pearl River Central W/A-Henley Field | 4,438 | 1.6 ppb |
| Pearl River Central W/A-Bi Co | 4,406 | 16.6 ppb |
| City Of Poplarville | 3,334 | 1 ppb |
| Nicholson Water Association | 3,001 | 0.7 ppb |
| Hide-A-Way Lake Water System | 2,727 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pearl River Central W/A-North | 2,278 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spring Hill Water Assn. | 1,642 | 0.67 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Picayune, 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 Prcua-Hillsdale Water System 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.