Town Of Jonesboro Water System, LA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Town Of Jonesboro Water System
Town Of Jonesboro Water System serves about 6,231 people through 2,077 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 Jackson Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1049010; phone on file: 318-259-2385. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Jonesboro Water System is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
How Town Of Jonesboro Water System 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 Jonesboro Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 38th percentile in Louisiana and the 36th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Jackson Parish County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Jonesboro Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Weston Water System | 1,980 | 1.1 ppb |
| Punkin Center Hilltop Ws | 1,710 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Chatham Water System | 1,557 | 1 ppb |
| Ebenezer Water System | 828 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eros Community Water System | 729 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcdonald Water System | 675 | 2 ppb |
| Village Of Quitman Water System | 648 | 1 ppb |
| Spillway Estates Water System | 501 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Hodge Water System | 479 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bear Creek Water System | 435 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Town Of Jonesboro Water System's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Town Of Jonesboro 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.