Friendship Water System, LA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.2 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. 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.
About Friendship Water System
Friendship Water System serves about 717 people through 239 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bienville Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1013007. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is up 5.2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Friendship Water System is 23 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 6 ppb |
| 2020 | 9 ppb |
| 2019 | 23 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 9 ppb |
| 2018 | 9 ppb |
How Friendship 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. Friendship Water System's 5.2 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Louisiana and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Bienville Parish County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Friendship Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Arcadia Water System | 4,146 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Ringgold Water System | 2,283 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alberta Water System | 1,860 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cypress Water System | 1,125 | 4 ppb |
| Town Of Gibsland Water System | 979 | 2 ppb |
| Alabama Water System | 948 | 6 ppb |
| Mt Olive Water System | 600 | 3 ppb |
| Jamestown Fryeburg Water System | 495 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Saline Water System | 450 | 3.1 ppb |
| Village Of Castor Water System | 435 | 0.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Saline, 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 Friendship Water System whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2100 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.