Town Of Erath Water System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Erath Water System at a glance
Town Of Erath Water System serves about 2,985 people through 995 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 groundwater, in Vermilion Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1113005; phone on file: 337-937-8401. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Town Of Erath Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Erath Water System is 3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 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 Erath Water System's 2 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Louisiana and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Vermilion Parish County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Erath Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Vermilion Waterworks District 1 | 24,132 | 2.3 ppb |
| City Of Abbeville Water System | 14,217 | 3 ppb |
| Magnolia Plantation Water System Inc | 8,769 | 2 ppb |
| Southeast Waterworks District 2 | 6,810 | 1.2 ppb |
| City Of Kaplan Water System | 4,340 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Maurice Water System | 3,450 | 2.5 ppb |
| Town Of Delcambre Water System | 2,457 | 5.1 ppb |
| Town Of Gueydan Water System | 2,016 | 4 ppb |
| Pecan Island Ww District No 3 | 1,230 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Erath, 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 Erath 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.