Sutter Water Service-Magnolia Springs, 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.
Who runs the water here
Sutter Water Service-Magnolia Springs serves about 1,201 people through 455 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Harrison County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0240271; phone on file: 228-452-2031. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sutter Water Service-Magnolia Springs is 0 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Sutter Water Service-Magnolia Springs 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. Sutter Water Service-Magnolia Springs's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in Mississippi and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
24 other systems share Harrison County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sutter Water Service-Magnolia Springs. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Gulfport | 75,056 | 1.5 ppb |
| City Of Biloxi | 23,310 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Long Beach | 18,514 | 2.9 ppb |
| Diberville W/S | 12,721 | 1.6 ppb |
| City Of Pass Christian | 10,436 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Biloxi-North | 9,858 | 1.1 ppb |
| Keesler Air Force Base | 8,006 | 1.1 ppb |
| City Of Biloxi-French | 4,968 | 0.7 ppb |
| Riverbend Utilities Inc | 4,834 | 5.1 ppb |
| Naval Construction Battal Ctr | 3,347 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Sutter Water Service-Magnolia Springs'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 Sutter Water Service-Magnolia Springs 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.