Lawco - Eunice Water System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Lawco - Eunice Water System at a glance
Lawco - Eunice Water System serves about 15,471 people through 5,157 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in St. Landry Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1097022; phone on file: 225-952-7601. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lawco - Eunice Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lawco - Eunice Water System is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 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. Lawco - Eunice Water System's 2 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Louisiana and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
26 other systems share St. Landry Parish County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lawco - Eunice 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 Opelousas Water System | 20,388 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Leonville Water System | 9,552 | 2.5 ppb |
| Lewisburg Bellevue Water System | 8,325 | 0 (not detected) |
| Savoy Swords Water System Inc | 7,326 | 2 ppb |
| Plaisance Water System | 6,465 | 0 (not detected) |
| Prairie Ronde Water System Inc | 6,105 | 0 (not detected) |
| St Landry Water Works District 2 Rural | 4,761 | 0.92 ppb |
| Town Of Sunset Water System | 4,356 | 0.39 ppb |
| Town Of Port Barre Water System | 3,828 | 0.75 ppb |
| Lawtell Water Works District No 1 | 3,717 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Baton Rouge, 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 Lawco - Eunice 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.