St Mary Parish W&S #2 Bayou Vista, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.3 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
St Mary Parish W&S #2 Bayou Vista at a glance
St Mary Parish W&S #2 Bayou Vista serves about 5,379 people through 1,906 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in St. Mary Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1101015; phone on file: 985-395-2747. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
St Mary Parish W&S #2 Bayou Vista's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for St Mary Parish W&S #2 Bayou Vista is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1 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. St Mary Parish W&S #2 Bayou Vista's 0.3 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Louisiana and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share St. Mary Parish County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than St Mary Parish W&S #2 Bayou Vista. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Morgan City Water System | 12,703 | 0 (not detected) |
| Water & Sewer Commission 4 Of St Mary | 9,709 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Patterson Water System | 8,456 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Franklin Water Supply | 8,325 | 2 ppb |
| St Mary Water & Sewer Comm #3 | 7,828 | 3.3 ppb |
| City Of Berwick | 5,024 | 0.7 ppb |
| St Mary Parish Water Sewerage Comm 1 | 2,823 | 0.82 ppb |
| St Mary Par Jt Water Sewer Commission 5 | 1,240 | 2 ppb |
| Port Of West St Mary | 400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glencoe Community Water System | 190 | 4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Patterson, 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 St Mary Parish W&S #2 Bayou Vista 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.