Town Of Fordoche, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.33 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.
About Town Of Fordoche
Town Of Fordoche serves about 1,380 people through 460 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 Pointe Coupee Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1077009; phone on file: 225-718-0481. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Fordoche is 0.33 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.33 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 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. Town Of Fordoche's 0.33 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Louisiana and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Pointe Coupee Parish County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Fordoche. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pointe Coupee Water Works District 1 | 10,629 | 1.2 ppb |
| Town Of New Roads Water System | 9,024 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pointe Coupee Wwks District 2 - Hwy 10 | 2,401 | 0.49 ppb |
| Innis Water Corporation Inc | 2,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Torbert- Frisco Water Works | 1,320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pointe Coupee Wwks District 2- Batchelor | 1,290 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Livonia Water System | 1,234 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Morganza Water System | 1,005 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alma Plantation Ltd | 111 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fordoche, 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 Fordoche 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.