Community Water System · PWSID MS0260014

South Holmes W/A #1

Serves 500 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateLexington, Mississippi
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On record since 1999: 9 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
8Notice or report

More violations on record than 62% of active water systems in Mississippi. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1999 · Notice or report: 120002002 · Notice or report: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 12010201520202024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
11% treatment lapse · 189% notice or report · 8

Across Mississippi, 50% of violations are missed or late tests and 6% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 2 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.5 ppb
0.6 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2008-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2002-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  9. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served500
Service connections414
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityLexington
EPA ZIP on file39095

Areas served

  • Holmes County

Reading this record

South Holmes W/A #1 is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 500 people in Lexington, Mississippi. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.