Town Of Mize, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 ppb (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. 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.
Town Of Mize at a glance
Town Of Mize serves about 568 people through 215 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 Smith County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0650004; phone on file: 601-733-2221. 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 2020 (0.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Mize is 1.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.6 ppb |
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. Town Of Mize's 0.6 ppb sits at the 26th percentile in Mississippi and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Smith County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Mize. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Taylorsville | 2,075 | 0.7 ppb |
| City Of Raleigh | 1,901 | 0.7 ppb |
| Center Ridge Water Association | 1,708 | 1 ppb |
| Lorena-Lemon-Burns Water Assn | 995 | 0.5 ppb |
| Town Of Polkville-Water Dept | 950 | 2 ppb |
| Morris Water Association | 887 | 1.4 ppb |
| Traxler Water Association | 855 | 2.1 ppb |
| White Oak Water Association | 747 | 1.1 ppb |
| Sylvarena Water Association | 721 | 5 ppb |
| Pineville Water Association #2 | 615 | 2.1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mize, 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 Mize 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.