Turner Springs Water Assn, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
About Turner Springs Water Assn
Turner Springs Water Assn serves about 528 people through 200 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Lafayette County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0360048. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Turner Springs Water Assn's lead record
Against the period ending 2017 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Turner Springs Water Assn is 1.7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 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. Turner Springs Water Assn's 1.7 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Mississippi and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lafayette County
17 other systems share Lafayette County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Turner Springs Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Oxford | 28,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| University Of Mississippi | 26,874 | 0 (not detected) |
| Anchor Water Association | 2,051 | 1.9 ppb |
| Taylor Water Association | 1,962 | 1 ppb |
| Westover Water Association, Inc | 1,771 | 2.2 ppb |
| Hopewell Water Association | 1,684 | 0.6 ppb |
| East Oxford Water Association | 1,544 | 1.24 ppb |
| Harmontown Water Association Inc | 1,393 | 2.4 ppb |
| Campground Water Assn | 1,175 | 0 (not detected) |
| College Hill Water Assn | 1,146 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Abbeville, 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 Turner Springs Water Assn 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.