Town Of Braxton, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Town Of Braxton
Town Of Braxton serves about 800 people through 303 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Simpson County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0640002; phone on file: 601-847-1879. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (1.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Braxton is 1.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
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. Town Of Braxton's 1.2 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Mississippi and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Simpson County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Braxton. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Okatoma Water Association #2 | 5,866 | 0.7 ppb |
| Smiths Crossing Water Assn | 4,480 | 10.3 ppb |
| Okatoma Water Association #1 | 3,981 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Magee | 3,526 | 12 ppb |
| New Hope Water Association | 2,587 | 0.5 ppb |
| Highway 28 Water Association | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Mendenhall | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shivers Water Association | 2,200 | 1.7 ppb |
| Harrisville W/A | 1,967 | 1.6 ppb |
| Boggan Ridge W/A | 1,500 | 0.6 ppb |
Next steps for Braxton, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Braxton, 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 Town Of Braxton 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.