Pearl River Central W/a-Bi Co, MS Water Quality
Is Pearl River Central W/a-Bi Co's water safe to drink?
Pearl River Central W/a-Bi Co has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,406 people get their water from it, across 1,669 connections.
How this compares nationally
Pearl River Central W/a-Bi Co has 125 violations on record in total, 3 of them health-based - ranking it 4,684th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 64th percentile nationally.
How Pearl River Central W/a-Bi Co compares within MS
Pearl River Central W/a-Bi Co's 3 health-based violations sit within the MS average of 3.1, across 361 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Pearl River Central W/a-Bi Co is from 2024-01-01 (health-based: 2007-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Pearl River Central W/a-Bi Co's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what Pearl River Central W/a-Bi Co reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and Pearl River Central W/a-Bi Co's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,684th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.