Buckeye Water District 50, 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.
Buckeye Water District 50 at a glance
Buckeye Water District 50 serves about 12,078 people through 4,026 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Rapides Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1079004; phone on file: 318-466-5746. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Buckeye Water District 50's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Buckeye Water District 50 is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 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. Buckeye Water District 50's 2 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Louisiana and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
21 other systems share Rapides Parish County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Buckeye Water District 50. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Alexandria Water System | 66,798 | 2 ppb |
| City Of Pineville Water System | 20,358 | 2 ppb |
| Rapides Parish Waterworks District 3 | 19,983 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rapides Island Water Association Inc | 5,658 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kolin Ruby Wise Waterwork District 11 A | 4,992 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Woodworth Water System | 4,818 | 2.2 ppb |
| Gardner Community Water System | 4,566 | 2 ppb |
| Village Of Forest Hill | 3,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lena Water System Inc | 3,417 | 3 ppb |
| Emc Water System Inc | 3,135 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Deville, LA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Deville, 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 Buckeye Water District 50 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.