St Joseph Abbey, LA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
St Joseph Abbey at a glance
St Joseph Abbey serves about 127 people through 6 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in St. Tammany Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1103032; phone on file: 985-892-1800. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for St Joseph Abbey is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
How St Joseph Abbey 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. St Joseph Abbey's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Louisiana and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in St. Tammany Parish County
65 other systems share St. Tammany Parish County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than St Joseph Abbey. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Slidell Water Supply | 35,547 | 0 (not detected) |
| St Tam Parish- Bedico -Faubourg-Coquille | 18,372 | 0 (not detected) |
| St Tam Parish - Briarwood Terrace | 17,536 | 2 ppb |
| City Of Covington Water Supply | 16,185 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Mandeville Water Supply | 13,000 | 1 ppb |
| Utilities Inc - North Park Water Supply | 11,298 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bayou Liberty Water Association | 10,791 | 0 (not detected) |
| St Tam Parish - Cross Gates Sd | 8,037 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lee Road Water Corporation | 7,665 | 2 ppb |
| Utilities Inc - Kingspoint Subdivision | 6,351 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for St. Benedict, LA
Look up your address in St Joseph Abbey'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 St Joseph Abbey 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.