Town Of Woodville, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.8 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 Woodville at a glance
Town Of Woodville serves about 2,772 people through 1,076 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 Wilkinson County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0790007; phone on file: 601-888-3338. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Town Of Woodville's lead record
That is up 5.1 ppb from 1.7 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Woodville is 6.8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.3 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 Woodville's 6.8 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Mississippi and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Wilkinson County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Woodville. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Old River Water Assn | 3,234 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Centreville W/A | 1,375 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Centreville | 1,207 | 0.7 ppb |
| Buffalo Water Association | 972 | 3 ppb |
| Wilkinson Co Correctional Cent | 889 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bleakhouse Water Association | 412 | 2 ppb |
| Bleakhouse Water Association #2 | 153 | 2.9 ppb |
| Old River Water Assn- Fords Creek | 55 | 3.8 ppb |
Next steps for Woodville, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Woodville, 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 Woodville 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.