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Belmont Waterworks Inc, LA

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.3 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.

Who runs the water here

Belmont Waterworks Inc serves about 2,805 people through 952 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Sabine Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1085053; phone on file: 318-256-9510. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Lead results over time

Against the period ending 2022 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Belmont Waterworks Inc is 4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20252.3 ppb
20223 ppb
20194 ppb
20163 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. Belmont Waterworks Inc's 2.3 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Louisiana and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).

Other water systems in Sabine Parish County

15 other systems share Sabine Parish County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Belmont Waterworks Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Sabine Parish Water District 17,8332 ppb
Ebarb Wwks Dist # 1 - Aimwell Area6,7381 ppb
South Toledo Bend Water District5,9430 (not detected)
Town Of Many Water System4,4280 (not detected)
Pendleton Water Association2,6342.2 ppb
Town Of Zwolle Water System2,5200 (not detected)
Ebarb Wwks Dist #1 - North Ebarb1,7610 (not detected)
Union Springs Water System1,2603 ppb
Village Of Florien Water System1,1493.5 ppb
Village Of Pleasant Hill Water System9902.1 ppb

Next steps for Belmont, LA

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Belmont, 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 Belmont Waterworks 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. 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.