Gilark Water System, LA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Gilark Water System at a glance
Gilark Water System serves about 675 people through 225 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Webster Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1119012; phone on file: 318-423-4409. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 14 ppb from 14 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gilark Water System is 14 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 14 ppb over 10 |
How Gilark 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. Gilark Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 15th percentile in Louisiana and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
25 other systems share Webster Parish County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gilark 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 Minden Water System | 16,281 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Springhill Water System | 7,800 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Sibley Water System | 2,373 | 0.6 ppb |
| Shongaloo Water System | 2,196 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blocker Water System | 1,719 | 1 ppb |
| Pleasant Valley Water System | 1,683 | 3 ppb |
| Gil-Gal Water System | 1,551 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Sarepta Water System | 1,500 | 0.5 ppb |
| Dixie Overland Water System | 1,455 | 0.59 ppb |
| Germantown Water System | 1,410 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Gilark Water System'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 Gilark 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.