The Oaks Utilities, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
The Oaks Utilities at a glance
The Oaks Utilities serves about 797 people through 302 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: MS0240256; phone on file: 228-860-7812. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for The Oaks Utilities is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. The Oaks Utilities's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Mississippi and the 25th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Harrison County
24 other systems share Harrison County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than The Oaks Utilities. 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 |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in The Oaks Utilities'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 The Oaks Utilities 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.