Town Of Roxie, MS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Town Of Roxie at a glance
Town Of Roxie serves about 395 people through 195 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Franklin County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0190005; phone on file: 601-322-7301. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 5.7 ppb from 5.7 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Roxie is 8.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 5.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 8.4 ppb |
How Town Of Roxie 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 Roxie's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in Mississippi and the 20th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Franklin County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Roxie. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fcwa - Oldenburg | 1,803 | 1.7 ppb |
| Fcwa-South Meadville | 1,794 | 2.1 ppb |
| Sixtown Water Association | 828 | 1.4 ppb |
| Town Of Bude | 780 | 0.8 ppb |
| Fcwa-Hamburg | 636 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Meadville | 500 | 2.4 ppb |
| Providence Water Association | 435 | 1.6 ppb |
| Fcwa - Berrytown | 282 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fcwa - Pleasant Valley | 168 | 1.4 ppb |
Next steps for Roxie, MS
Look up your address in Town Of Roxie'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 Roxie 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.