East Allen Parish Water Works, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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
East Allen Parish Water Works serves about 3,030 people through 1,010 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Allen Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1003011; phone on file: 337-639-4956. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East Allen Parish Water Works is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 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. East Allen Parish Water Works's 1.4 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Louisiana and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Allen Parish County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than East Allen Parish Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Southwest Allen Ww District No 2 | 8,106 | 0.64 ppb |
| City Of Oakdale Water System | 6,114 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Allen Parish Water System | 3,582 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Kinder Water System | 3,195 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of Oberlin Water System | 2,730 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwest Allen Parish Ww District | 1,767 | 4 ppb |
| South Oakdale Water System | 1,434 | 0 (not detected) |
| Allen Parish Ww District No 1 | 1,266 | 0.37 ppb |
| Village Of Elizabeth Water System | 1,005 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Oberlin, LA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Oberlin, 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 East Allen Parish Water Works 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.