Southeast Noxapater Water Assn, MS
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11.8 ppb (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Southeast Noxapater Water Assn serves about 1,188 people through 450 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 Winston County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0800009. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Southeast Noxapater Water Assn's lead record
That is up 9.5 ppb from 2.3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Southeast Noxapater Water Assn is 11.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 11.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.8 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. Southeast Noxapater Water Assn's 11.8 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Mississippi and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Winston County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Southeast Noxapater Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Louisville | 7,545 | 0 (not detected) |
| Highpoint Water Association #1 | 1,940 | 3.26 ppb |
| Town Of Noxapater | 1,713 | 0 (not detected) |
| Liberty-Plattsburg W/A #2 | 1,412 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bond Water Association #1 | 1,299 | 2.5 ppb |
| Ellison Ridge Water Assn | 1,287 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nanih-Waiya Water Association | 1,127 | 0.5 ppb |
| Pugh'S Mill Water Association | 924 | 5.8 ppb |
| Calvary Water Association | 900 | 0.7 ppb |
| City Of Louisville - Northeast | 780 | 2.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Noxapater, 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 Southeast Noxapater 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.