Zama Water Association, MS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.4 ppb (monitoring period 2015-2017). 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.
Zama Water Association at a glance
Zama Water Association serves about 354 people through 137 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 Attala County, Mississippi. EPA system ID: MS0040011; phone on file: 601-728-0634. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Zama Water Association's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Zama Water Association is 0.4 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 0.4 ppb |
How Zama 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. Zama Water Association's 0.4 ppb sits at the 20th percentile in Mississippi and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Attala County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Zama 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 Kosciusko | 9,646 | 0.6 ppb |
| Town Of Sallis | 2,785 | 1.2 ppb |
| Ethel Rural Water Association | 1,544 | 1.9 ppb |
| Conehoma Water Assn #2 | 1,500 | 0.7 ppb |
| Conehoma Water Assn #1 | 1,495 | 0 (not detected) |
| Possumneck-Carmack W/A | 1,214 | 1.3 ppb |
| Mississippi Water Company | 785 | 0.6 ppb |
| Mcadams Water Association | 708 | 1.1 ppb |
| Town Of Mccool | 652 | 7 ppb |
| Town Of Ethel | 486 | 0.5 ppb |
Next steps for Kosciusko, MS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kosciusko, 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 Zama Water Association 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.