St Mary Parish Water Sewerage Comm 1, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.82 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.
St Mary Parish Water Sewerage Comm 1 at a glance
St Mary Parish Water Sewerage Comm 1 serves about 2,823 people through 1,200 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 surface water, in St. Mary Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1101009. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
St Mary Parish Water Sewerage Comm 1's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for St Mary Parish Water Sewerage Comm 1 is 0.82 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.82 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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 Mary Parish Water Sewerage Comm 1's 0.82 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Louisiana and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share St. Mary Parish County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than St Mary Parish Water Sewerage Comm 1. 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 |
| St Mary Parish W&S #2 Bayou Vista | 5,379 | 0.3 ppb |
| City Of Berwick | 5,024 | 0.7 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; Amelia, 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 Water Sewerage Comm 1 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.