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What is in the water at 39216

2 public water systems serve this ZIP code in the federal records. Everything below comes from EPA monitoring data, and everything missing is named.

CITY OF JACKSON

PWSID MS0250008 · MS · serves 189,673 people

PFAS and lithium

Sampled, nothing detected. Tested for 30 compounds under UCMR 5 with none found at or above its reporting limit. A reporting limit is the lowest concentration the method can measure, so this means “below that” rather than “zero”.

Health-based violations

10 open health-based violation(s) recorded in SDWIS and not yet returned to compliance.

  • TT · contaminant code 5000 · began 2016-01-01
  • TT · contaminant code 5000 · began 2020-01-01
  • TT · contaminant code 0300 · began 2022-07-01
  • MCL · contaminant code 2950 · began 2024-07-01
  • MCL · contaminant code 2456 · began 2024-10-01
  • MCL · contaminant code 2950 · began 2024-10-01
  • MCL · contaminant code 2950 · began 2025-01-01
  • MCL · contaminant code 2456 · began 2025-01-01

Hardness

No hardness measurement. Hardness is measured at environmental monitoring stations, and none fell inside this system’s service area. That is a gap in where monitoring happens, not a finding about the water.

UNIVERSITY OF MS MEDICAL CNTR

PWSID MS0250034 · MS

PFAS and lithium

1 compound detected at or above the reporting limit under EPA’s UCMR 5 monitoring, across 2 samples.

CompoundHighest detectedSamplesMost recent
lithium10 µg/L24/11/2023

A detection is a measurement, not a violation and not a health finding. EPA states that UCMR 5 results do not indicate compliance or non-compliance with any limit.

Health-based violations

No open health-based violation on record. This covers MCL, treatment technique and MRDL violations in SDWIS that have not been returned to compliance. It excludes monitoring and reporting violations, which are the large majority nationally, so this is not “no violations”, and SDWIS completeness varies by state.

Hardness

No hardness measurement. Hardness is measured at environmental monitoring stations, and none fell inside this system’s service area. That is a gap in where monitoring happens, not a finding about the water.

What this report cannot tell you

Every figure describes water at a sampling point: a treatment plant, an entry point to the distribution system, or a monitoring station. None of it describes water arriving at your tap. Plumbing between the two can add lead and copper, and if your home was built before 1986 a test kit tells you something no federal dataset can.

Sources: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence (final release, frozen July 2026) · EPA SDWIS health-based violations · USGS and state monitoring via the Water Quality Portal · EPA Public Water System Service Area Boundaries v3. Compiled 2026-09-01.