Four Forks Water System, LA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Four Forks Water System at a glance
Four Forks Water System serves about 609 people through 203 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Caddo Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1017062; phone on file: 318-458-5718. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Four Forks Water System is 17 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 17 ppb over 15 |
How Four Forks 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. Four Forks Water System's 1 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in Louisiana and the 53rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
27 other systems share Caddo Parish County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Four Forks 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 Shreveport Water System | 192,378 | 0.92 ppb |
| Town Of Blanchard Water System | 16,488 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waterworks District 7 | 5,889 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Greenwood Water System | 5,205 | 29 ppb |
| Pinehill Waterworks District | 4,926 | 6 ppb |
| Town Of Vivian Water System | 4,050 | 1.2 ppb |
| Town Of Oil City Water System | 2,169 | 1 ppb |
| Lakeview Water System | 2,025 | 11.3 ppb |
| Village Of Mooringsport Water System | 999 | 9 ppb |
| Village Of Hosston Water System | 729 | 2.2 ppb |
Next steps for Keithville, LA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Keithville, 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 Four Forks 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.