Town Of Duck Hill, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 ppb (monitoring period 2018-2020). 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.
Who runs the water here
Town Of Duck Hill serves about 924 people through 350 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 Montgomery County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0490002; phone on file: 662-565-7200. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Town Of Duck Hill's lead record
Against the period ending 2017 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Duck Hill is 1.3 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.7 ppb |
How Town Of Duck Hill 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. Town Of Duck Hill's 1.3 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Mississippi and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Montgomery County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Duck Hill. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Winona | 5,071 | 3.2 ppb |
| Town Of Kilmichael | 1,341 | 1.2 ppb |
| South Winona Water Association | 874 | 0.8 ppb |
| Hays Creek W/A - Alva | 750 | 4.8 ppb |
| Hays Creek W/A-Minerva #2 | 750 | 0.6 ppb |
| North District 1 Water Assn. | 700 | 1.6 ppb |
| Poplar Creek Water Association | 634 | 1.1 ppb |
| 51-55 Water Association | 441 | 0.7 ppb |
| Hays Creek W/A-Lodi | 441 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hays Creek W/A-Minerva | 372 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Duck Hill, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Duck Hill, 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 Duck Hill 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.