Louisiana State Penitentiary, LA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Louisiana State Penitentiary at a glance
Louisiana State Penitentiary serves about 6,362 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in West Feliciana Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1125005; phone on file: 225-655-4411. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Louisiana State Penitentiary's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Louisiana State Penitentiary is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 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. Louisiana State Penitentiary's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 38th percentile in Louisiana and the 36th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
2 other systems share West Feliciana Parish County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Louisiana State Penitentiary. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| West Feliciana Consol Wwks District 13 | 12,045 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of St Francisville Water System | 2,304 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Louisiana State Penitentiary'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 Louisiana State Penitentiary 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.