South Lowndes W/A, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About South Lowndes W/A
South Lowndes W/A serves about 1,230 people through 466 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 Lowndes County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0440097; phone on file: 662-329-3929. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for South Lowndes W/A is 1.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.3 ppb |
How South Lowndes W/A 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. South Lowndes W/A's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th percentile in Mississippi and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Lowndes County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than South Lowndes W/A. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Columbus Light & Water | 23,616 | 0.5 ppb |
| East Lowndes W/A B West-Old Yorkville Rd | 7,355 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Lowndes W/A #2-Huckleberry | 7,035 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Caledonia | 6,589 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Lowndes #4-Herman-Vaughn | 5,678 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Lowndes W/A A East-Old Yorkville | 4,778 | 0 (not detected) |
| Columbus Air Force Base | 3,300 | 1.4 ppb |
| Prairie Land Water Association, Inc | 2,500 | 5.8 ppb |
| East Lowndes W/A #1-Lee Stokes | 2,209 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Crawford | 942 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in South Lowndes W/A's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask South Lowndes W/A 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.