City Of Shreveport Water System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.92 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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
City Of Shreveport Water System serves about 192,378 people through 64,126 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Caddo Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1017031; phone on file: 318-673-5050. 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 2024 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Shreveport Water System is 1 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.92 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 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. City Of Shreveport Water System's 0.92 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Louisiana and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
27 other systems share Caddo Parish County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Shreveport Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Blanchard Water System | 16,488 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waterworks District 7 | 5,889 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Greenwood Water System | 5,205 | 29 ppb |
| Pinehill Waterworks District | 4,926 | 6 ppb |
| Town Of Vivian Water System | 4,050 | 1.2 ppb |
| Town Of Oil City Water System | 2,169 | 1 ppb |
| Lakeview Water System | 2,025 | 11.3 ppb |
| Village Of Mooringsport Water System | 999 | 9 ppb |
| Village Of Hosston Water System | 729 | 2.2 ppb |
| Deepwoods Utilities Inc | 657 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Shreveport, 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 City Of Shreveport 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.