Lincoln Parish Waterworks District #1, LA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Lincoln Parish Waterworks District #1
Lincoln Parish Waterworks District #1 serves about 570 people through 190 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lincoln Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1061009; phone on file: 318-777-8173. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lincoln Parish Waterworks District #1 is 138 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 138 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Lincoln Parish Waterworks District #1's 3 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Louisiana and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lincoln Parish County
19 other systems share Lincoln Parish County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lincoln Parish Waterworks District #1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Ruston Water System | 22,468 | 1.4 ppb |
| Grambling State University Ws | 6,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Grambling Water System | 4,949 | 9 ppb |
| Wesley Chapel Water System | 4,080 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greater Ward 1 Waterworks District | 3,333 | 1 ppb |
| Culbertson Water System | 3,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lincoln Parish Waterworks District #3 | 2,730 | 1 ppb |
| Village Of Choudrant Water System | 1,950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mt Zion Water System | 1,635 | 1 ppb |
| Hico Water System | 1,530 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dubach, 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 Lincoln Parish Waterworks District #1 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.