Egan Water Corporation No 2, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.63 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.
Egan Water Corporation No 2 at a glance
Egan Water Corporation No 2 serves about 2,835 people through 945 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Acadia Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1001026; phone on file: 337-788-2889. 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 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Egan Water Corporation No 2 is 4 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.63 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 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. Egan Water Corporation No 2's 0.63 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Louisiana and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Acadia Parish County
11 other systems share Acadia Parish County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Egan Water Corporation No 2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lawco - Crowley Water System | 17,634 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Rayne Water System | 10,908 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mire Branch Water Corporation | 9,480 | 2 ppb |
| Egan Water Corporation | 5,337 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Rayne Water Corporation | 4,254 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Church Point Water System | 4,176 | 1 ppb |
| North Of Crowley Water Corporation | 4,020 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of Iota Water System | 1,842 | 2 ppb |
| Village Of Morse Water System | 1,065 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Estherwood Water System | 891 | 4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Egan, 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 Egan Water Corporation No 2 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1900 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.