Cheniere Drew North Water System, 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.
About Cheniere Drew North Water System
Cheniere Drew North Water System serves about 11,280 people through 3,760 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Ouachita Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1073100; phone on file: 318-322-9516. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cheniere Drew North Water System is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
How Cheniere Drew North Water System compares
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. Cheniere Drew North Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 41st percentile in Louisiana and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
22 other systems share Ouachita Parish County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cheniere Drew North 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 Monroe Water System | 57,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of West Monroe Water System | 16,005 | 1 ppb |
| Gowc West Hwy 80 Ark Road Ws | 14,649 | 2 ppb |
| Gowc North Water System | 13,287 | 1 ppb |
| Gowc East Water System | 11,742 | 1 ppb |
| Southwest Ouachita Waterworks, Inc | 10,725 | 3 ppb |
| Gowc Brownville Water System | 9,696 | 3 ppb |
| Gowc Kiroli Darbonne Ws | 9,210 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gowc South Monroe Ws | 7,335 | 2 ppb |
| Cadeville Water District | 6,219 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Cheniere Drew North Water System'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 Cheniere Drew North 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.