Leatherman Creek Water System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Who runs the water here
Leatherman Creek Water System serves about 375 people through 125 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Claiborne Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1027014; phone on file: 318-548-5542. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Leatherman Creek Water System is 4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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. Leatherman Creek Water System's 4 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Louisiana and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Claiborne Parish County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Leatherman Creek Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Homer Water System | 4,365 | 4.7 ppb |
| South Claiborne Water System | 3,843 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Haynesville Water System | 3,600 | 1 ppb |
| Central Claiborne Water System | 2,859 | 2 ppb |
| David Wade Correctional Center Ws | 1,660 | 0 (not detected) |
| Summerfield Water System | 1,329 | 1 ppb |
| Village Of Lisbon Water System | 891 | 2 ppb |
| Pine Hill Water System | 729 | 22 ppb |
| Village Of Athens Water System | 486 | 2 ppb |
| Norton Shop Water System | 336 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Athens, LA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Athens, 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 Leatherman Creek 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.