Town Of Noxapater, 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
Town Of Noxapater serves about 1,713 people through 660 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 Winston County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0800006; phone on file: 662-724-4476. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Noxapater is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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. Town Of Noxapater's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 9th percentile in Mississippi and the 30th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Winston County
10 other systems share Winston County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Noxapater. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Louisville | 7,545 | 0 (not detected) |
| Highpoint Water Association #1 | 1,940 | 3.26 ppb |
| Liberty-Plattsburg W/A #2 | 1,412 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bond Water Association #1 | 1,299 | 2.5 ppb |
| Ellison Ridge Water Assn | 1,287 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southeast Noxapater Water Assn | 1,188 | 11.8 ppb |
| Nanih-Waiya Water Association | 1,127 | 0.5 ppb |
| Pugh'S Mill Water Association | 924 | 5.8 ppb |
| Calvary Water Association | 900 | 0.7 ppb |
| City Of Louisville - Northeast | 780 | 2.3 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Town Of Noxapater'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 Town Of Noxapater 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.