Sixtown Water Association, MS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2028). 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.
About Sixtown Water Association
Sixtown Water Association serves about 828 people through 324 service connections, which makes it a 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: MS0190006; phone on file: 601-384-8098. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (1.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sixtown Water Association is 39 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 17.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 39 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 4.2 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. Sixtown Water Association's 1.4 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Mississippi and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Franklin County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sixtown 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 |
| Town Of Bude | 780 | 0.8 ppb |
| Fcwa-Hamburg | 636 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Meadville | 500 | 2.4 ppb |
| Providence Water Association | 435 | 1.6 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 Sixtown 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.