Hebert Water System, 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.
Hebert Water System at a glance
Hebert Water System serves about 3,048 people through 1,016 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Caldwell Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1021006; phone on file: 318-649-0409. 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 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hebert Water System is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Hebert Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 31st percentile in Louisiana and the 33rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Caldwell Parish County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hebert Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| East Columbia Water System | 2,829 | 0 (not detected) |
| Columbia Heights Water District | 1,965 | 2.8 ppb |
| Village Of Grayson Water System | 1,461 | 0.81 ppb |
| Kelly Water District | 1,314 | 0.86 ppb |
| Holum Water System | 1,230 | 1 ppb |
| Wards 4 & 5 Water System | 1,002 | 5 ppb |
| Village Of Columbia Water System | 945 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Clarks Water System | 906 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cotton Plant Water System | 783 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vixen Water System | 750 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Columbia, LA
Look up your address in Hebert 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 Hebert 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.