Fluker Chapel Water Works, 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.
Fluker Chapel Water Works at a glance
Fluker Chapel Water Works serves about 296 people through 74 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Tangipahoa Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1105005; phone on file: 985-345-6457. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fluker Chapel Water Works is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2 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. Fluker Chapel Water Works's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th percentile in Louisiana and the 18th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Tangipahoa Parish County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fluker Chapel Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tangipahoa Parish Water District | 75,873 | 1.6 ppb |
| City Of Hammond Water System | 21,135 | 2 ppb |
| City Of Pontchatoula Water System | 6,657 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Amite Water System | 4,300 | 1 ppb |
| Utilities Inc - Hammond Heights | 4,281 | 1 ppb |
| Tangipahoa (Second Ward) Water District | 4,112 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Independence Water System | 3,052 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Kentwood Water System | 2,205 | 8 ppb |
| Town Of Roseland Water System | 1,521 | 0 (not detected) |
| Utilities Inc - Velma | 1,302 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Fluker Chapel Water Works'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 Fluker Chapel 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.