Glencoe Community Water System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 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. 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.
Glencoe Community Water System at a glance
Glencoe Community Water System serves about 190 people through 68 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in St. Mary Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1101004; phone on file: 337-276-3668. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Glencoe Community Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Glencoe Community Water System is 6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 6 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 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. Glencoe Community Water System's 4 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Louisiana and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share St. Mary Parish County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Glencoe Community 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 Morgan City Water System | 12,703 | 0 (not detected) |
| Water & Sewer Commission 4 Of St Mary | 9,709 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Patterson Water System | 8,456 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Franklin Water Supply | 8,325 | 2 ppb |
| St Mary Water & Sewer Comm #3 | 7,828 | 3.3 ppb |
| St Mary Parish W&S #2 Bayou Vista | 5,379 | 0.3 ppb |
| City Of Berwick | 5,024 | 0.7 ppb |
| St Mary Parish Water Sewerage Comm 1 | 2,823 | 0.82 ppb |
| St Mary Par Jt Water Sewer Commission 5 | 1,240 | 2 ppb |
| Port Of West St Mary | 400 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Jeanerette, LA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jeanerette, 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 Glencoe Community 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.