Ascension Parish Water Works District 2, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Ascension Parish Water Works District 2 serves about 1,353 people through 451 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Ascension Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1005001; phone on file: 225-952-7616. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Ascension Parish Water Works District 2's lead record
That is up 4 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ascension Parish Water Works District 2 is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
How Ascension Parish Water Works District 2 compares
Of the 802 Louisiana systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.72 ppb; 4 are over 15 ppb right now and 30 have gone over at some point. Ascension Parish Water Works District 2's 4 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Louisiana and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Ascension Parish County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ascension Parish Water Works District 2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Gonzales Water System | 16,806 | 1 ppb |
| Parish Utilities Of Ascension | 9,732 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ascension Consolidated Utility Dist 1 | 2,229 | 0 (not detected) |
| Diversion Water - Bayou Estates | 450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cypress Trace Manufactured Housing Comm. | 140 | 0 (not detected) |
| White Oaks Manufactured Housing Comm. | 138 | 0 (not detected) |
| Plantation Mobile Home Village | 132 | 0 (not detected) |
| Roddy Road Village Ascension, Llc | 120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Diversion Water - Cypress Lakes | 111 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jimmy Babin Apartments | 96 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Baton Rouge, LA may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Ascension Parish Water Works District 2 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.