Stewart Water Assc #2, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (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. 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.
About Stewart Water Assc #2
Stewart Water Assc #2 serves about 317 people through 121 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Montgomery County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0490022; phone on file: 662-299-2424. 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 2.2 ppb from 3.2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Stewart Water Assc #2 is 3.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
How Stewart Water Assc #2 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. Stewart Water Assc #2's 1 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in Mississippi and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Montgomery County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Stewart Water Assc #2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Winona | 5,071 | 3.2 ppb |
| Town Of Kilmichael | 1,341 | 1.2 ppb |
| Town Of Duck Hill | 924 | 1.3 ppb |
| South Winona Water Association | 874 | 0.8 ppb |
| Hays Creek W/A - Alva | 750 | 4.8 ppb |
| Hays Creek W/A-Minerva #2 | 750 | 0.6 ppb |
| North District 1 Water Assn. | 700 | 1.6 ppb |
| Poplar Creek Water Association | 634 | 1.1 ppb |
| 51-55 Water Association | 441 | 0.7 ppb |
| Hays Creek W/A-Lodi | 441 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Stewart, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stewart, 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 Stewart Water Assc #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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.