Sunflower Water Assn, MS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Sunflower Water Assn at a glance
Sunflower Water Assn serves about 473 people through 175 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 Sunflower County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0670038; phone on file: 662-719-3182. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.3 ppb from 3.3 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sunflower Water Assn is 23.4 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 23.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 23.4 ppb over 15 |
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. Sunflower Water Assn's 2 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Mississippi and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Sunflower County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sunflower Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Indianola | 9,464 | 0.5 ppb |
| Fmh Water Association | 2,740 | 0.7 ppb |
| City Of Ruleville | 2,657 | 1.3 ppb |
| Ms State Penitentiary-Mn Ln | 2,500 | 2.6 ppb |
| Town Of Moorhead | 2,301 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Drew | 2,300 | 1.6 ppb |
| Town Of Sunflower | 1,900 | 4.1 ppb |
| So. Sunflower W/A-Inverness | 898 | 0.78 ppb |
| Town Of Inverness | 839 | 1.1 ppb |
| Town Of Doddsville | 264 | 0.8 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Merigold, 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 Sunflower Water Assn 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.