Carter Plantation, LA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Carter Plantation at a glance
Carter Plantation serves about 472 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Livingston Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1063119; phone on file: 225-636-1082. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Carter Plantation's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Carter Plantation is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 5 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. Carter Plantation's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in Louisiana and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
22 other systems share Livingston Parish County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Carter Plantation. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ward Ii Water District | 78,147 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Denham Springs Water System | 25,725 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Walker Water System | 15,813 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Livingston Water System | 8,946 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Albany Water System | 7,305 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fourth Ward Water Works | 4,839 | 0 (not detected) |
| Colyell Community Water | 4,544 | 0 (not detected) |
| Utilities Inc- Whitehall/ Head Of Island | 2,676 | 0.98 ppb |
| Utilities Inc - French Settlement | 2,313 | 1 ppb |
| Utilities Inc- Springfield Area | 1,914 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Carter Plantation'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 Carter Plantation 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.