Stringer Water Works, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 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.
Stringer Water Works at a glance
Stringer Water Works serves about 3,556 people through 1,347 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Jasper County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0310012; phone on file: 601-649-2855. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Stringer Water Works's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (1.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Stringer Water Works is 2.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.5 ppb |
How Stringer Water Works 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. Stringer Water Works's 1.4 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Mississippi and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Jasper County
15 other systems share Jasper County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Stringer Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tallahala W/A-Antioch | 3,427 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Bay Springs | 2,925 | 2.2 ppb |
| Philadelphia Water Assn | 2,062 | 2.4 ppb |
| Tri-County W/A #1-Jasper | 1,861 | 0.6 ppb |
| Tri-County W/A #3-Summerland | 1,853 | 1.8 ppb |
| Beaverdam W/A-North | 1,800 | 1.2 ppb |
| Beaver Meadow Waterworks Association | 1,687 | 1.6 ppb |
| Tallahala W/A-Garlandsville | 1,534 | 1.1 ppb |
| Paulding Water Association | 1,363 | 3.4 ppb |
| Rose Hill Water Association | 1,280 | 0.8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stringer, 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 Stringer Water Works 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.