St Landry Wwd 3 Port Barre Area D, 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.
About St Landry Wwd 3 Port Barre Area D
St Landry Wwd 3 Port Barre Area D serves about 1,860 people through 620 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in St. Landry Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1097037; phone on file: 337-585-3796. 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 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for St Landry Wwd 3 Port Barre Area D is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 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. St Landry Wwd 3 Port Barre Area D's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 26th percentile in Louisiana and the 30th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
26 other systems share St. Landry Parish County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than St Landry Wwd 3 Port Barre Area D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Opelousas Water System | 20,388 | 1 ppb |
| Lawco - Eunice Water System | 15,471 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of Leonville Water System | 9,552 | 2.5 ppb |
| Lewisburg Bellevue Water System | 8,325 | 0 (not detected) |
| Savoy Swords Water System Inc | 7,326 | 2 ppb |
| Plaisance Water System | 6,465 | 0 (not detected) |
| Prairie Ronde Water System Inc | 6,105 | 0 (not detected) |
| St Landry Water Works District 2 Rural | 4,761 | 0.92 ppb |
| Town Of Sunset Water System | 4,356 | 0.39 ppb |
| Town Of Port Barre Water System | 3,828 | 0.75 ppb |
Next steps for Port Barre, LA
Look up your address in St Landry Wwd 3 Port Barre Area D'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 Landry Wwd 3 Port Barre Area D 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.