Town Of Church Point Water System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Who runs the water here
Town Of Church Point Water System serves about 4,176 people through 1,750 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 Acadia Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1001001. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Church Point Water System is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
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. Town Of Church Point Water System's 1 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Louisiana and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Acadia Parish County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Church Point Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lawco - Crowley Water System | 17,634 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Rayne Water System | 10,908 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mire Branch Water Corporation | 9,480 | 2 ppb |
| Egan Water Corporation | 5,337 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Rayne Water Corporation | 4,254 | 1 ppb |
| North Of Crowley Water Corporation | 4,020 | 2 ppb |
| Egan Water Corporation No 2 | 2,835 | 0.63 ppb |
| Town Of Iota Water System | 1,842 | 2 ppb |
| Village Of Morse Water System | 1,065 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Estherwood Water System | 891 | 4 ppb |
Next steps for Church Point, LA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Church Point, 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 Church Point 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.