Steele-Ringgold W/A #2, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 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. 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.
Steele-Ringgold W/A #2 at a glance
Steele-Ringgold W/A #2 serves about 2,883 people through 1,092 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 Scott County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0620023; phone on file: 601-469-2530. 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 3.6 ppb from 4.4 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Steele-Ringgold W/A #2 is 4.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.4 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Steele-Ringgold W/A #2's 0.8 ppb sits at the 41st percentile in Mississippi and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Scott County
11 other systems share Scott County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Steele-Ringgold W/A #2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sebastopol Water Association | 6,207 | 1.2 ppb |
| City Of Forest | 5,430 | 2.2 ppb |
| City Of Morton | 3,400 | 0.5 ppb |
| H & H Water System, Inc | 3,036 | 2.9 ppb |
| Steele-Ringgold W/A #1 | 2,965 | 1.5 ppb |
| Homewood Water Association | 1,877 | 0.9 ppb |
| C & C W/A | 1,808 | 1.3 ppb |
| L & F Water Association | 1,803 | 1.5 ppb |
| Homestead Water Association | 1,251 | 1.4 ppb |
| High Hill Water Association | 600 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Forest, 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 Steele-Ringgold W/A #2 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.