Sugarcane Townes Water System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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.
About Sugarcane Townes Water System
Sugarcane Townes Water System serves about 288 people through 96 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Calcasieu Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1019131; phone on file: 337-309-7201. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sugarcane Townes Water System is 1.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Sugarcane Townes Water System's 1.2 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in Louisiana and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
35 other systems share Calcasieu Parish County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sugarcane Townes Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Lake Charles Water System | 79,500 | 0.84 ppb |
| City Of Sulphur Water System | 24,489 | 2 ppb |
| Calcasieu Parish Ww District No 1 | 20,837 | 1 ppb |
| Calcasieu Parish Ww Dist 9 Carlyss | 14,502 | 0 (not detected) |
| Houston River Waterworks District 11 | 6,915 | 1 ppb |
| Calcasieu Parish Ww District 8 | 6,834 | 1 ppb |
| Calcasieu Parish Ww District No 4 | 5,340 | 2 ppb |
| Lawco - Dequincy Water System | 5,319 | 0.59 ppb |
| Calcasieu Parish Ww District No 5 | 5,088 | 4 ppb |
| City Of Westlake Water System | 4,858 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Iowa, LA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Iowa, 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 Sugarcane Townes 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. 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.