Sw Ms Comm College, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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
Sw Ms Comm College serves about 500 people through 48 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Pike County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0570011; phone on file: 601-276-3726. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.5 ppb from 2.5 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sw Ms Comm College is 2.5 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.5 ppb |
How Sw Ms Comm College 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. Sw Ms Comm College's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 4th percentile in Mississippi and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Pike County
10 other systems share Pike County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sw Ms Comm College. 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 |
| Sunnyhill Water Association | 3,833 | 1.1 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 |
| Town Of Osyka | 420 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for Summit, MS
Look up your address in Sw Ms Comm College'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 Sw Ms Comm College 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.