Beauregard District No 2 Ward No 5, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
About Beauregard District No 2 Ward No 5
Beauregard District No 2 Ward No 5 serves about 6,613 people through 1,872 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 Beauregard Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1011012; phone on file: 337-462-6805. 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 2022 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Beauregard District No 2 Ward No 5 is 7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 7 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
Against other Louisiana systems
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. Beauregard District No 2 Ward No 5's 2 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Louisiana and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Beauregard Parish County
5 other systems share Beauregard Parish County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Beauregard District No 2 Ward No 5. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Beauregard Water Works Dist #3 | 24,000 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Deridder Water System | 14,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Merryville Water System | 1,107 | 4 ppb |
| Beauregard Waterworks District No. 6 | 993 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beauregard Water District #5 | 672 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Singer, 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 Beauregard District No 2 Ward No 5 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.