Town Of Merryville Water System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 ppb (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. 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.
Town Of Merryville Water System at a glance
Town Of Merryville Water System serves about 1,107 people through 369 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 Beauregard Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1011007; phone on file: 337-825-8740. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 8 ppb from 12 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Merryville Water System is 12 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 5 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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 Merryville Water System's 4 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Louisiana and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Beauregard Parish County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Merryville Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Beauregard Water Works Dist #3 | 24,000 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Deridder Water System | 14,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beauregard District No 2 Ward No 5 | 6,613 | 2 ppb |
| Beauregard Waterworks District No. 6 | 993 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beauregard Water District #5 | 672 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Merryville, 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 Merryville 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.