Town Of Melville Water System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2017-2019). 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 Melville Water System
Town Of Melville Water System serves about 1,314 people through 438 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 St. Landry Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1097007; phone on file: 337-623-4226. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2016 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Melville Water System is 3 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 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 Melville Water System's 2 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Louisiana and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
26 other systems share St. Landry Parish County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Melville 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 Opelousas Water System | 20,388 | 1 ppb |
| Lawco - Eunice Water System | 15,471 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of Leonville Water System | 9,552 | 2.5 ppb |
| Lewisburg Bellevue Water System | 8,325 | 0 (not detected) |
| Savoy Swords Water System Inc | 7,326 | 2 ppb |
| Plaisance Water System | 6,465 | 0 (not detected) |
| Prairie Ronde Water System Inc | 6,105 | 0 (not detected) |
| St Landry Water Works District 2 Rural | 4,761 | 0.92 ppb |
| Town Of Sunset Water System | 4,356 | 0.39 ppb |
| Town Of Port Barre Water System | 3,828 | 0.75 ppb |
Next steps for Melville, LA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Melville, 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 Melville 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.