Town Of Sallis, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 ppb (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. 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 Sallis at a glance
Town Of Sallis serves about 2,785 people through 1,055 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 Attala County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0040010; phone on file: 662-289-4909. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.9 ppb from 3.1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Sallis is 3.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
How Town Of Sallis 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 Sallis's 1.2 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Mississippi and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Attala County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Sallis. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Kosciusko | 9,646 | 0.6 ppb |
| Ethel Rural Water Association | 1,544 | 1.9 ppb |
| Conehoma Water Assn #2 | 1,500 | 0.7 ppb |
| Conehoma Water Assn #1 | 1,495 | 0 (not detected) |
| Possumneck-Carmack W/A | 1,214 | 1.3 ppb |
| Mississippi Water Company | 785 | 0.6 ppb |
| Mcadams Water Association | 708 | 1.1 ppb |
| Town Of Mccool | 652 | 7 ppb |
| Town Of Ethel | 486 | 0.5 ppb |
| Sugar Creek Water Association | 405 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Sallis, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sallis, 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 Sallis 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.