Avoyelles Ward One Water System Inc, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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
Avoyelles Ward One Water System Inc serves about 3,726 people through 1,242 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Avoyelles Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1009016; phone on file: 318-253-7375. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Avoyelles Ward One Water System Inc is 4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
How Avoyelles Ward One Water System Inc 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. Avoyelles Ward One Water System Inc's 2 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Louisiana and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Avoyelles Parish County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Avoyelles Ward One Water System Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Marksville Water System | 7,593 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fifth Ward Water System | 5,676 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of Bunkie Water System | 5,169 | 1 ppb |
| Village Of Plaucheville Water System | 4,233 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avoyelles Parish Waterworks District 1 | 3,900 | 1 ppb |
| Brouillette Water System Inc | 3,732 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Hessmer Water System | 3,246 | 0.25 ppb |
| Town Of Cottonport Water System | 3,120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avoyelles Ward 3 Waterworks District | 2,619 | 1.4 ppb |
| Village Of Evergreen Water System | 2,205 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Effie, 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 Avoyelles Ward One Water System Inc 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.