Village Of Anacoco, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 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
Village Of Anacoco serves about 1,506 people through 502 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 Vernon Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1115001; phone on file: 337-239-0215. 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 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village Of Anacoco is 4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
How Village Of Anacoco compares
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. Village Of Anacoco's 1.7 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Louisiana and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Vernon Parish County
14 other systems share Vernon Parish County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village Of Anacoco. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Polk South Water System | 10,902 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Leesville Water System | 10,545 | 1 ppb |
| Fort Polk North Water System | 9,420 | 1.1 ppb |
| East Central Vernon Water System | 6,363 | 2 ppb |
| Vernon Parish Water And Sewer Commission | 5,295 | 3.1 ppb |
| West Vernon Parish Waterworks District | 4,365 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Vernon Parish Waterworks District | 4,083 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of New Llano Water System | 3,300 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Hornbeck Water System | 2,730 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Rosepine Water System | 2,427 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Anacoco, 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 Village Of Anacoco 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.