Chee Chee Bay Water System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (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. 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
Chee Chee Bay Water System serves about 429 people through 143 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Natchitoches Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1069011; phone on file: 318-875-2844. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Chee Chee Bay Water System is 2 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 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. Chee Chee Bay Water System's 2 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Louisiana and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Natchitoches Parish County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Chee Chee Bay Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Natchitoches Water System | 26,910 | 0 (not detected) |
| Natchitoches Parish Wwks District 2 | 8,415 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Campti Water System | 1,515 | 13 ppb |
| Bellwood Water System | 1,032 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hagewood Water System | 1,017 | 0 (not detected) |
| Creston Water System | 801 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Provencal Water System | 705 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sandy Point 480 Water System | 654 | 0.29 ppb |
| Village Of Clarence Water System | 612 | 1.2 ppb |
| Chestnut-Readhimer Water System | 564 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Goldonna, 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 Chee Chee Bay Water System 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.