Sunnyhill Water Association, MS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Sunnyhill Water Association at a glance
Sunnyhill Water Association serves about 3,833 people through 1,452 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 Pike County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0570014; phone on file: 601-249-3502. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Sunnyhill Water Association's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (1.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sunnyhill Water Association is 18.5 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 18.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 18.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.5 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. Sunnyhill Water Association's 1.1 ppb sits at the 56th percentile in Mississippi and the 57th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Pike County
10 other systems share Pike County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sunnyhill 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 Mccomb | 12,041 | 5.6 ppb |
| North Pike Water Association | 5,359 | 1.5 ppb |
| Magnolia Rural Water Assn | 2,922 | 0 (not detected) |
| Friendship Community W/A | 2,434 | 6 ppb |
| City Of Magnolia | 2,307 | 1.4 ppb |
| East Pike Water Assn. | 2,107 | 0 (not detected) |
| Homestead Water Association | 1,832 | 1.2 ppb |
| Town Of Summit | 1,502 | 1.6 ppb |
| Sw Ms Comm College | 500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Osyka | 420 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for Mccomb, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mccomb, 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 Sunnyhill 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.