Diversion Water - Bayou Estates, LA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Diversion Water - Bayou Estates
Diversion Water - Bayou Estates serves about 450 people through 150 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Ascension Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1005005; phone on file: 225-673-8560. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Diversion Water - Bayou Estates is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Diversion Water - Bayou Estates'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.
Other water systems in Ascension Parish County
16 other systems share Ascension Parish County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Diversion Water - Bayou Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Gonzales Water System | 16,806 | 1 ppb |
| Parish Utilities Of Ascension | 9,732 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ascension Consolidated Utility Dist 1 | 2,229 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ascension Parish Water Works District 2 | 1,353 | 4 ppb |
| Cypress Trace Manufactured Housing Comm. | 140 | 0 (not detected) |
| White Oaks Manufactured Housing Comm. | 138 | 0 (not detected) |
| Plantation Mobile Home Village | 132 | 0 (not detected) |
| Roddy Road Village Ascension, Llc | 120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Diversion Water - Cypress Lakes | 111 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jimmy Babin Apartments | 96 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Diversion Water - Bayou Estates'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 Diversion Water - Bayou Estates 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.