Town Of Wesson, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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 Wesson at a glance
Town Of Wesson serves about 1,891 people through 593 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 Copiah County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0150011; phone on file: 601-643-5221. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Town Of Wesson's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Wesson is 1.3 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 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 Wesson's 0.5 ppb sits at the 23rd percentile in Mississippi and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Copiah County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Wesson. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Crystal Springs Water Service | 5,961 | 0 (not detected) |
| Copiah-New Zion Water Assn,Inc | 3,791 | 1.8 ppb |
| Town Of Hazlehurst | 3,600 | 0.5 ppb |
| Northeast Copiah Water Assn | 3,020 | 0 (not detected) |
| Copiah W/A - Hazlehurst | 2,574 | 0 (not detected) |
| Copiah W/A - Gallman | 1,566 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harmony Ridge Water Assn | 1,380 | 0.5 ppb |
| Copiah W/A - Bayou Pierre #1 | 1,246 | 0.8 ppb |
| Town Of Georgetown | 465 | 0 (not detected) |
| Copiah W/A - Bayou Pierre #2 | 430 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wesson, 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 Wesson 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.