Town Of Bunkie Water System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Town Of Bunkie Water System at a glance
Town Of Bunkie Water System serves about 5,169 people through 1,723 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 groundwater, in Avoyelles Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1009004; phone on file: 318-346-7663. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Town Of Bunkie Water System'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 Town Of Bunkie Water System is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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. Town Of Bunkie Water System's 1 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Louisiana and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Avoyelles Parish County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Bunkie 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 Marksville Water System | 7,593 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fifth Ward Water System | 5,676 | 2 ppb |
| Village Of Plaucheville Water System | 4,233 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avoyelles Parish Waterworks District 1 | 3,900 | 1 ppb |
| Brouillette Water System Inc | 3,732 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avoyelles Ward One Water System Inc | 3,726 | 2 ppb |
| Village Of Hessmer Water System | 3,246 | 0.25 ppb |
| Town Of Cottonport Water System | 3,120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avoyelles Ward 3 Waterworks District | 2,619 | 1.4 ppb |
| Village Of Evergreen Water System | 2,205 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bunkie, 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 Town Of Bunkie 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.