Bcc Detention Center Ws, LA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.4 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Bcc Detention Center Ws at a glance
Bcc Detention Center Ws serves about 150 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Richland Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1083016; phone on file: 318-248-3057. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bcc Detention Center Ws is 20 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Bcc Detention Center Ws's 0.4 ppb sits at the 47th percentile in Louisiana and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Richland Parish County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bcc Detention Center Ws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Rayville Water System | 4,842 | 1 ppb |
| Archibald Water System | 4,200 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Delhi Water Supply | 4,071 | 2 ppb |
| River Road Water System | 3,513 | 2.6 ppb |
| East Richland Ww District | 3,120 | 2.4 ppb |
| Start Water System | 2,514 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Mangham Water System | 927 | 0 (not detected) |
| Richland Heights Subd Water System | 30 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Rayville, LA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rayville, 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 Bcc Detention Center Ws whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1800 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.