Utilities Inc- Whitehall/ Head Of Island, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.98 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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
Utilities Inc- Whitehall/ Head Of Island serves about 2,676 people through 892 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Livingston Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1063028; phone on file: 985-705-4696. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.02 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Utilities Inc- Whitehall/ Head Of Island is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.98 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2 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. Utilities Inc- Whitehall/ Head Of Island's 0.98 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Louisiana and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Livingston Parish County
22 other systems share Livingston Parish County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Utilities Inc- Whitehall/ Head Of Island. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ward Ii Water District | 78,147 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Denham Springs Water System | 25,725 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Walker Water System | 15,813 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Livingston Water System | 8,946 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Albany Water System | 7,305 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fourth Ward Water Works | 4,839 | 0 (not detected) |
| Colyell Community Water | 4,544 | 0 (not detected) |
| Utilities Inc - French Settlement | 2,313 | 1 ppb |
| Utilities Inc- Springfield Area | 1,914 | 1 ppb |
| Diversion Water- Water Front West | 1,548 | 3.2 ppb |
Next steps for Mandeville, LA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mandeville, 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 Utilities Inc- Whitehall/ Head Of Island 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.