Nebo Water System Inc, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Nebo Water System Inc at a glance
Nebo Water System Inc serves about 2,460 people through 820 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in La Salle Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1059005; phone on file: 318-744-0308. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.6 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Nebo Water System Inc is 4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 4 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. Nebo Water System Inc's 1.6 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Louisiana and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share La Salle Parish County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Nebo Water System Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Jena Water System | 3,614 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lasalle Waterworks District 1 | 3,240 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Olla Water System | 2,565 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belah Fellowship Water System | 1,806 | 2 ppb |
| Summerville Water System | 1,425 | 3 ppb |
| East Jena Water System Inc. | 990 | 2 ppb |
| Village Of Tullos Water System | 792 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Urania Water System | 784 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whitehall Water System Inc | 627 | 0.69 ppb |
| Pleasant Ridge Water System | 540 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jena, 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 Nebo Water System Inc 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.