Lawco - Lecompte Water System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 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.
Lawco - Lecompte Water System at a glance
Lawco - Lecompte Water System serves about 1,527 people through 509 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rapides Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1079014; phone on file: 225-952-7601. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.9 ppb from 5 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lawco - Lecompte Water System is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 5 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
How Lawco - Lecompte 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. Lawco - Lecompte Water System's 2.1 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Louisiana and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Rapides Parish County
21 other systems share Rapides Parish County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lawco - Lecompte 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 Alexandria Water System | 66,798 | 2 ppb |
| City Of Pineville Water System | 20,358 | 2 ppb |
| Rapides Parish Waterworks District 3 | 19,983 | 0 (not detected) |
| Buckeye Water District 50 | 12,078 | 2 ppb |
| Rapides Island Water Association Inc | 5,658 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kolin Ruby Wise Waterwork District 11 A | 4,992 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Woodworth Water System | 4,818 | 2.2 ppb |
| Gardner Community Water System | 4,566 | 2 ppb |
| Village Of Forest Hill | 3,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lena Water System Inc | 3,417 | 3 ppb |
Next steps for Baton Rouge, LA
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 - Lecompte 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.