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Community Water System · PWS MS0530019

Sessums Water Association

Operator location Starkville, Mississippi - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 277 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,117 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,117
People served (this PWS)
277
EPA violations (this PWS)
5
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Sessums Water Association standing, high SDWIS violation third

277 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 2% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #18,453 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Sessums Water Association sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (277), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,117 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 2% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#18,453 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#596 of 837
Population · MS
277
Total EPA violations on record
2%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Community
Owner Type
Public/Private
Connections
423
County
Oktibbeha
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
5
Monitoring Violations
237
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Combined Uranium MR 72 2011
Radium-228 MR 44 2011
Radium-226 MR 44 2011
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 28 2008
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 28 2008
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 10 2023
Coliform (TCR) MR 8 2004
Coliform (TCR) MCL 5 2016
Chlorine MR 4 2004
Nitrate MR 3 2023
Nitrite MR 3 2023
Nitrate-Nitrite MR 3 2023
Public Notice Other 1 2008

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Sessums Water Association has 277 recorded EPA violations, 90% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 10% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 277), and it ranks #18,453 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

277 Higher than most more violations than 90% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for Sessums Water Association

277 violations on record for MS0530019; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

277 violations · 1,117 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems with comparable violation load

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Sessums Water Association

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater