Sparta Water Association #1, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Sparta Water Association #1 at a glance
Sparta Water Association #1 serves about 2,532 people through 959 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 Chickasaw County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0090010; phone on file: 662-456-3807. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (2.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sparta Water Association #1 is 2.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.2 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. Sparta Water Association #1's 1.2 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Mississippi and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Chickasaw County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sparta Water Association #1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Houston | 3,772 | 4.6 ppb |
| City Of Okolona | 2,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southeast Chickasaw W/A #1 | 1,969 | 6.2 ppb |
| Thorn Water Association | 1,756 | 2.6 ppb |
| Houlka-Houston W/A | 1,668 | 0.6 ppb |
| Town Of New Houlka | 1,515 | 2.28 ppb |
| East Chickasaw W/A #1 | 1,463 | 2.5 ppb |
| East Chickasaw W/A #2 | 1,238 | 0.7 ppb |
| Atlanta Water System, Inc. | 700 | 0.8 ppb |
| Ccm, Inc | 380 | 1.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Houston, 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 Sparta Water Association #1 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.