Scott Combined Water & Sewer D, MS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.8 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Scott Combined Water & Sewer D serves about 288 people through 109 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Bolivar County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0060017. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Scott Combined Water & Sewer D's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (4.05 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Scott Combined Water & Sewer D is 39 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.05 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.48 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 39 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 39 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 7.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 7.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.9 ppb |
How Scott Combined Water & Sewer D 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. Scott Combined Water & Sewer D's 4.8 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Mississippi and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Bolivar County
25 other systems share Bolivar County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Scott Combined Water & Sewer D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Cleveland | 16,392 | 1.3 ppb |
| City Of Shelby | 1,998 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Mound Bayou | 1,711 | 2.2 ppb |
| City Of Rosedale | 1,708 | 2.38 ppb |
| Town Of Shaw | 1,639 | 0.7 ppb |
| Delta State University | 1,500 | 5.2 ppb |
| Boyle-Skene W/A#3 | 1,486 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of Boyle | 1,400 | 1.1 ppb |
| Town Of Renova | 1,357 | 2 ppb |
| Boyle-Skene W/A #2 | 1,156 | 2.39 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Scott, 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 Scott Combined Water & Sewer D 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.