Winterville Water Association, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Winterville Water Association at a glance
Winterville Water Association serves about 92 people through 46 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 Washington County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0760010; phone on file: 662-820-1039. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Winterville Water Association is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.3 ppb |
How Winterville Water Association compares
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. Winterville Water Association's 2 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Mississippi and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Washington County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Winterville Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Greenville | 29,602 | 1.1 ppb |
| Black Bayou Water Assn. | 6,917 | 1.5 ppb |
| City Of Leland | 4,591 | 0.7 ppb |
| City Of Hollandale | 2,323 | 1.03 ppb |
| Town Of Metcalfe | 1,125 | 0.6 ppb |
| Glen Allan Utility District | 649 | 0.79 ppb |
| Town Of Arcola | 546 | 1 ppb |
| Raskin Enterprises Llc-Delta Village Mhp | 491 | 0 (not detected) |
| Golding Acres Water Assn | 99 | 18.2 ppb |
| City Of Greenville (Airbase) | 30 | 4.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Greenville, 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 Winterville Water Association whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2573 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.