Pleasant Ridge Water System, 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.
About Pleasant Ridge Water System
Pleasant Ridge Water System serves about 540 people through 180 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: LA1059006; phone on file: 318-758-1299. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Pleasant Ridge Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pleasant Ridge Water System is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Pleasant Ridge Water System 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. Pleasant Ridge Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 12th percentile in Louisiana and the 23rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share La Salle Parish County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pleasant Ridge Water System. 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) |
| Nebo Water System Inc | 2,460 | 1.6 ppb |
| 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 |
Next steps for Olla, LA
Look up your address in Pleasant Ridge Water System'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 Pleasant Ridge Water System 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.