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Community Water System · PWS MS0600006

Town of Lambert

Operator location Lambert, Mississippi - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 937 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,167 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,167
People served (this PWS)
937
EPA violations (this PWS)
15
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Town of Lambert standing, high SDWIS violation third

937 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 #18,158 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Town of Lambert sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (937), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,167 (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.

#18,158 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#579 of 837
Population · MS
937
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
Local
Connections
450
County
Quitman
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
13
Monitoring Violations
904
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Combined Uranium MR 268 2013
Radium-226 MR 180 2012
Radium-228 MR 180 2012
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 84 2008
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 84 2008
Nitrite MR 21 2024
Nitrate MR 21 2024
Nitrate-Nitrite MR 21 2024
Chlorine MR 18 2024
Coliform (TCR) MCL 13 2000
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 10 2021
Coliform (TCR) MR 9 2006
Lead and Copper Rule MR 4 2021
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 2 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 2 2024
TTHM MR 2 2023
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 2 2023
Public Notice Other 1 2008

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Town of Lambert has 937 recorded EPA violations, 99% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 1% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (15 of 937), and it ranks #18,158 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)

937 Higher than most more violations than 99% 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 Town of Lambert

937 violations on record for MS0600006; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

937 violations · 1,167 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 Town of Lambert

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

  • See how every tracked system in Mississippi compares on the same EPA violation measures. Mississippi systems
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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