Village Of Cankton Water System, LA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Village Of Cankton Water System at a glance
Village Of Cankton Water System serves about 2,730 people through 910 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: LA1097025; phone on file: 337-668-4456. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village Of Cankton Water System is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 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. Village Of Cankton Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 31st percentile in Louisiana and the 32nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
26 other systems share St. Landry Parish County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village Of Cankton 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 |
Your move
Look up your address in Village Of Cankton Water System's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Village Of Cankton 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.