Ebarb Wwks Dist # 1 - N Ebarb/Belmont, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 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
Ebarb Wwks Dist # 1 - N Ebarb/Belmont serves about 789 people through 263 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 Sabine Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1085058; phone on file: 318-645-7722. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ebarb Wwks Dist # 1 - N Ebarb/Belmont is 9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 6 ppb |
| 2016 | 9 ppb |
How Ebarb Wwks Dist # 1 - N Ebarb/Belmont 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. Ebarb Wwks Dist # 1 - N Ebarb/Belmont's 1.5 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Louisiana and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Sabine Parish County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ebarb Wwks Dist # 1 - N Ebarb/Belmont. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sabine Parish Water District 1 | 7,833 | 2 ppb |
| Ebarb Wwks Dist # 1 - Aimwell Area | 6,738 | 1 ppb |
| South Toledo Bend Water District | 5,943 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Many Water System | 4,428 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belmont Waterworks Inc | 2,805 | 2.3 ppb |
| Pendleton Water Association | 2,634 | 2.2 ppb |
| Town Of Zwolle Water System | 2,520 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ebarb Wwks Dist #1 - North Ebarb | 1,761 | 0 (not detected) |
| Union Springs Water System | 1,260 | 3 ppb |
| Village Of Florien Water System | 1,149 | 3.5 ppb |
Next steps for Zwolle, LA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Zwolle, 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 Ebarb Wwks Dist # 1 - N Ebarb/Belmont 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.