Community Water System · PWSID MS0280017

Tallula Utility District

Serves 300 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentRolling Fork, Mississippi

1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Groundwater Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2007: 9 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 2 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit

3Treatment lapse1 open

2Missed or late test

4Notice 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

One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

33% treatment lapse · 322% missed or late test · 244% notice or report · 4

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 ppb

0.9 ppb

Open now (1)

2022-03-11Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen

Every violation on record

2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
2023-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2023-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
2023-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
2022-03-11Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
2022-03-11Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
2008-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2007-02-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served	300
Service connections	136
Water source	Groundwater
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	Rolling Fork
EPA ZIP on file	39159

Areas served

Issaquena County

Reading this record

Tallula Utility District is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 300 people in Rolling Fork, 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.