Town Of Lake Arthur 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 Lake Arthur Water System
Town Of Lake Arthur Water System serves about 2,706 people through 1,168 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 Jefferson Davis Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1053005; phone on file: 337-774-2211. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Lake Arthur Water System is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2 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 Lake Arthur Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 30th percentile in Louisiana and the 32nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Jefferson Davis Parish County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Lake Arthur Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Jennings Water System | 9,837 | 2 ppb |
| Jeff Davis Water And Sewer Commission 1 | 9,780 | 1 ppb |
| Jeff Davis Central Waterworks District | 5,709 | 4.2 ppb |
| Town Of Welsh Water System | 4,311 | 3 ppb |
| Jeff Davis Water District 4 | 4,194 | 1.4 ppb |
| Town Of Elton Water System | 1,512 | 2 ppb |
| Village Of Fenton Water System | 226 | 17 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Town Of Lake Arthur 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 Lake Arthur 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.