Town Of Gramercy Waterworks, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.49 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 Gramercy Waterworks
Town Of Gramercy Waterworks serves about 2,860 people through 1,404 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 surface water, in St. James Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1093002; phone on file: 225-869-4403. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Town Of Gramercy Waterworks's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Gramercy Waterworks is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.49 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
How Town Of Gramercy Waterworks compares
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 Gramercy Waterworks's 0.49 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in Louisiana and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in St. James Parish County
3 other systems share St. James Parish County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Town Of Gramercy Waterworks. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| St James Water District 2 | 7,513 | 0 (not detected) |
| St James Water District 1 | 7,200 | 5 ppb |
| Town Of Lutcher Waterworks | 4,781 | 0.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gramercy, 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 Gramercy Waterworks 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.