Rome Water System, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
About Rome Water System
Rome Water System serves about 211 people through 80 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 Sunflower County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0670010. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.7 ppb from 2.7 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rome Water System is 2.7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.6 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. Rome Water System's 1 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in Mississippi and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Sunflower County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rome Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Indianola | 9,464 | 0.5 ppb |
| Fmh Water Association | 2,740 | 0.7 ppb |
| City Of Ruleville | 2,657 | 1.3 ppb |
| Ms State Penitentiary-Mn Ln | 2,500 | 2.6 ppb |
| Town Of Moorhead | 2,301 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Drew | 2,300 | 1.6 ppb |
| Town Of Sunflower | 1,900 | 4.1 ppb |
| So. Sunflower W/A-Inverness | 898 | 0.78 ppb |
| Town Of Inverness | 839 | 1.1 ppb |
| Sunflower Water Assn | 473 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Rome, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rome, 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 Rome 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.