Lpwdn Township Ws, LA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Lpwdn Township Ws serves about 72 people through 24 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lafayette Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1055180; phone on file: 337-896-8683. 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 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lpwdn Township Ws is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Lpwdn Township Ws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in Louisiana and the 6th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Lafayette Parish County
33 other systems share Lafayette Parish County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lpwdn Township Ws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lafayette Utilities Water System | 169,389 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lpwdn North Region | 16,833 | 0.5 ppb |
| Lpwd South | 15,132 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Carencro Water System | 11,301 | 0.63 ppb |
| City Of Youngsville Purchase Ws | 10,281 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Broussard Purchase Water System | 10,242 | 0.35 ppb |
| Milton Water System | 10,200 | 4 ppb |
| City Of Scott Water System | 9,696 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Youngsville Water System | 7,956 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Broussard Water System | 5,151 | 0.39 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Lpwdn Township Ws'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 Lpwdn Township Ws 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.