Smiths Crossing Water Assn, MS
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.3 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Smiths Crossing Water Assn
Smiths Crossing Water Assn serves about 4,480 people through 1,697 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 Simpson County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0640014; phone on file: 601-849-4631. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Smiths Crossing Water Assn's lead record
That is up 5.9 ppb from 4.4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Smiths Crossing Water Assn is 10.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 8.6 ppb |
How Smiths Crossing Water Assn 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. Smiths Crossing Water Assn's 10.3 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Mississippi and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Simpson County
14 other systems share Simpson County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Smiths Crossing Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Okatoma Water Association #2 | 5,866 | 0.7 ppb |
| Okatoma Water Association #1 | 3,981 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Magee | 3,526 | 12 ppb |
| New Hope Water Association | 2,587 | 0.5 ppb |
| Highway 28 Water Association | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Mendenhall | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shivers Water Association | 2,200 | 1.7 ppb |
| Harrisville W/A | 1,967 | 1.6 ppb |
| Boggan Ridge W/A | 1,500 | 0.6 ppb |
| Poplar Springs Water District | 1,188 | 0.6 ppb |
Next steps for Magee, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Magee, 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 Smiths Crossing 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.