Bayou Bonne Idee Ws, LA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Bayou Bonne Idee Ws at a glance
Bayou Bonne Idee Ws serves about 1,656 people through 552 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Morehouse Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1067002; phone on file: 318-647-5148. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bayou Bonne Idee Ws is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Bayou Bonne Idee Ws 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. Bayou Bonne Idee Ws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 25th percentile in Louisiana and the 30th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Morehouse Parish County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bayou Bonne Idee Ws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bastrop Water System | 18,105 | 4 ppb |
| Consolidated Water District No. 2 | 3,498 | 2 ppb |
| Ward 3 Water System | 1,740 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beekman Water System | 1,275 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waterworks 1 Of Morehouse, Inc | 1,266 | 0.8 ppb |
| Village Of Mer Rouge Water System | 1,098 | 0 (not detected) |
| Morehouse Central Ws | 780 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jones Mcginty Water System | 660 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Collinston Water System | 609 | 4 ppb |
| Village Of Oak Ridge Water System | 369 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Bayou Bonne Idee Ws's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Bayou Bonne Idee Ws 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.