South Victoria, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Who runs the water here
South Victoria serves about 143 people through 54 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Marshall County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0470069; phone on file: 901-483-2243. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 5.5 ppb from 5.5 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for South Victoria is 5.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.9 ppb |
How South Victoria 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 Victoria's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 1st percentile in Mississippi and the 12th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Marshall County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than South Victoria. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Holly Springs | 9,779 | 0.6 ppb |
| Marshall Co Water Assn | 5,599 | 0.7 ppb |
| Town Of Byhalia | 4,446 | 0.8 ppb |
| Bcm Water Association | 1,898 | 1.4 ppb |
| Town Of Potts Camp | 1,085 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in South Victoria'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 Victoria 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.