Town Of Vardaman, MS
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14.3 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Town Of Vardaman serves about 1,610 people through 610 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 Calhoun County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0070019; phone on file: 662-682-7561. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 10 ppb from 4.3 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Vardaman is 14.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 14.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 8.1 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 Vardaman's 14.3 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Mississippi and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Calhoun County
16 other systems share Calhoun County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Vardaman. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Bruce | 2,798 | 0.9 ppb |
| Mt Comfort W/A-Banner | 2,442 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Calhoun City | 2,101 | 1.6 ppb |
| Cross-Roads Water Association | 1,125 | 3.6 ppb |
| Mt Comfort W/A | 1,085 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Pittsboro | 1,077 | 1.9 ppb |
| Mt Comfort W/A-Mt Moriah | 1,011 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Derma | 957 | 0.7 ppb |
| Big Creek Water Association | 731 | 0 (not detected) |
| Poplar Springs W/A #1 | 645 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Vardaman, 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 Vardaman 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.