Town Of Many South, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.77 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Town Of Many South serves about 51 people through 17 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Sabine Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1085061; phone on file: 318-256-3651. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.23 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Many South is 2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.77 ppb |
| 2025 | 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 Many South's 0.77 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Louisiana and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Sabine Parish County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Many South. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sabine Parish Water District 1 | 7,833 | 2 ppb |
| Ebarb Wwks Dist # 1 - Aimwell Area | 6,738 | 1 ppb |
| South Toledo Bend Water District | 5,943 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Many Water System | 4,428 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belmont Waterworks Inc | 2,805 | 2.3 ppb |
| Pendleton Water Association | 2,634 | 2.2 ppb |
| Town Of Zwolle Water System | 2,520 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ebarb Wwks Dist #1 - North Ebarb | 1,761 | 0 (not detected) |
| Union Springs Water System | 1,260 | 3 ppb |
| Village Of Florien Water System | 1,149 | 3.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Many, 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 Many South 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.