East Iberville Water System, 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.
Who runs the water here
East Iberville Water System serves about 6,657 people through 2,219 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Iberville Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1047007. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
East Iberville Water System's lead record
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East Iberville Water System is 3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
How East Iberville 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. East Iberville Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 39th percentile in Louisiana and the 36th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Iberville Parish County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than East Iberville 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 Plaquemine Water System | 14,043 | 1 ppb |
| Intracoastal Water System West | 6,489 | 0.41 ppb |
| Town Of Maringouin | 3,300 | 1 ppb |
| Intracoastal Water System East | 2,940 | 0.84 ppb |
| Town Of White Castle Water System | 2,550 | 2 ppb |
| North Iberville Water System | 1,524 | 0.82 ppb |
| Highway 1148 Water System | 1,086 | 0.89 ppb |
| Village Of Grosse Tete Water System | 954 | 2 ppb |
| Village Of Rosedale Water System | 664 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gillis Long Center | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in East Iberville 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 East Iberville 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.