Pine Prairie Correctional Facility, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.26 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.
Pine Prairie Correctional Facility at a glance
Pine Prairie Correctional Facility serves about 900 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws groundwater, in Evangeline Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1039018; phone on file: 337-599-2198. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pine Prairie Correctional Facility is 1 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.26 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Pine Prairie Correctional Facility compares
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. Pine Prairie Correctional Facility's 0.26 ppb sits at the 45th percentile in Louisiana and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Evangeline Parish County
12 other systems share Evangeline Parish County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pine Prairie Correctional Facility. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Ville Platte Water System | 6,590 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Side Water System | 5,718 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Turkey Creek Water System | 5,289 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Mamou Water System | 4,559 | 7 ppb |
| Bayou Des Cannes Water System | 4,530 | 1 ppb |
| Point Blue/Chataiginer Water System | 3,471 | 0 (not detected) |
| Reddell Vidrine Water District | 2,952 | 0 (not detected) |
| Evangeline Ww District 1 - Pine Prairie | 2,598 | 0.64 ppb |
| Town Of Basile Water System | 2,559 | 2 ppb |
| Te Mamou Water District | 2,259 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Pine Prairie, LA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pine Prairie, 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 Pine Prairie Correctional Facility 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.