Town Of Prentiss, 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 Prentiss serves about 1,882 people through 713 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 Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0330008; phone on file: 601-792-5196. 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 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Prentiss is 0.7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.6 ppb |
How Town Of Prentiss 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 Prentiss's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th 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.
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Jefferson Davis County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Prentiss. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Good Hope Water Association | 2,809 | 0.7 ppb |
| Double Ponds Water Association | 2,500 | 0.7 ppb |
| Northeast Jeff Davis W/A | 2,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lily Rose W/A #1 | 1,675 | 0.8 ppb |
| Lily Rose W/A #2 | 1,275 | 1.2 ppb |
| Town Of Bassfield | 1,199 | 0.86 ppb |
| Carson Central Water Assn | 300 | 1.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Town Of Prentiss'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 Prentiss 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.