Providence Water Association, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
About Providence Water Association
Providence Water Association serves about 435 people through 145 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 Franklin County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0190004; phone on file: 601-384-2046. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Providence Water Association's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Providence Water Association is 1.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Providence Water Association compares
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. Providence Water Association's 1.6 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Mississippi and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Franklin County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Providence Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fcwa - Oldenburg | 1,803 | 1.7 ppb |
| Fcwa-South Meadville | 1,794 | 2.1 ppb |
| Sixtown Water Association | 828 | 1.4 ppb |
| Town Of Bude | 780 | 0.8 ppb |
| Fcwa-Hamburg | 636 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Meadville | 500 | 2.4 ppb |
| Town Of Roxie | 395 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fcwa - Berrytown | 282 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fcwa - Pleasant Valley | 168 | 1.4 ppb |
Next steps for Meadville, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Meadville, 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 Providence Water Association 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.