Tri-Lakes Water Assn-East, MS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.3 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Tri-Lakes Water Assn-East at a glance
Tri-Lakes Water Assn-East serves about 304 people through 118 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Yalobusha County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0810010; phone on file: 662-473-6505. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Tri-Lakes Water Assn-East's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tri-Lakes Water Assn-East is 26.8 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 26.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 26.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 0.6 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Tri-Lakes Water Assn-East's 0.3 ppb sits at the 19th percentile in Mississippi and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Yalobusha County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tri-Lakes Water Assn-East. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Water Valley | 3,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Billys Creek Rural W/A | 1,532 | 0.8 ppb |
| Yalobusha Water/Sewer Dist #1 | 1,422 | 1.1 ppb |
| Jeff Davis W/A Inc | 1,312 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tillatoba Water Association | 1,200 | 0.6 ppb |
| Tri-Lakes Water Assn-West | 1,059 | 0.6 ppb |
| Town Of Coffeeville | 905 | 2.1 ppb |
| Town Of Oakland | 579 | 0.7 ppb |
| Yalobusha Water/Sewer Dist #2 | 537 | 0.5 ppb |
| East End Water Association | 479 | 0.8 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Water Valley, 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 Tri-Lakes Water Assn-East 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.