Sugar Creek Water Association, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Sugar Creek Water Association at a glance
Sugar Creek Water Association serves about 405 people through 162 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 Attala County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0040009; phone on file: 662-674-5353. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Sugar Creek Water Association's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sugar Creek Water Association is 0.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.9 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. Sugar Creek Water Association's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in Mississippi and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Attala County
13 other systems share Attala County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sugar Creek Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Kosciusko | 9,646 | 0.6 ppb |
| Town Of Sallis | 2,785 | 1.2 ppb |
| Ethel Rural Water Association | 1,544 | 1.9 ppb |
| Conehoma Water Assn #2 | 1,500 | 0.7 ppb |
| Conehoma Water Assn #1 | 1,495 | 0 (not detected) |
| Possumneck-Carmack W/A | 1,214 | 1.3 ppb |
| Mississippi Water Company | 785 | 0.6 ppb |
| Mcadams Water Association | 708 | 1.1 ppb |
| Town Of Mccool | 652 | 7 ppb |
| Town Of Ethel | 486 | 0.5 ppb |
Next steps for Ethel, MS
Look up your address in Sugar Creek Water Association's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Sugar Creek Water Association 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.