Progress Comm Water Assn, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.9 ppb (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. 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.
Progress Comm Water Assn at a glance
Progress Comm Water Assn serves about 7,017 people through 2,658 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Lamar County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0370008; phone on file: 601-794-8664. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Progress Comm Water Assn is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1 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. Progress Comm Water Assn's 0.9 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Mississippi and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Lamar County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Progress Comm Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| West Lamar Water Assn #1 | 18,491 | 1.7 ppb |
| North Lamar Water Association | 12,778 | 1.2 ppb |
| Lamar Park Water & Sewage Assn | 7,714 | 1.7 ppb |
| Arnold Line Water Association | 6,600 | 0.8 ppb |
| North Lumberton Utility Assn | 4,071 | 0.6 ppb |
| City Of Purvis | 2,590 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Sumrall | 1,998 | 0.7 ppb |
| City Of Lumberton | 1,896 | 0.5 ppb |
| East Lowndes Water Association, Inc. | 459 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Purvis, 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 Progress Comm Water Assn 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.