North Lee W/a #4-Macedonia

Water Quality Snapshot: North Lee W/a #4-Macedonia

North Lee W/a #4-Macedonia is a public/private-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 1,238 residents in Saltillo, Mississippi (Lee County) through 469 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 361 total violations for this system , of which 3 (1%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 349 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2020.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Chlorine, recorded in 83 violations (MR). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Mississippi, EPA tracks 1,185 public water systems serving 3,286,781 people, with 499,292 cumulative violations and 10,292 health-based violations on record. About 96% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 421.3 violations. Statewide, 160 of 238 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (67.2%).

North Lee W/a #4-Macedonia's 361 violations sit below the Mississippi average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.