Village Of Clarence Water System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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.
Village Of Clarence Water System at a glance
Village Of Clarence Water System serves about 612 people through 204 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 surface water, in Natchitoches Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1069002; phone on file: 318-357-0440. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Village Of Clarence Water System's lead record
That is up 1.2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village Of Clarence Water System is 1.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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 Clarence Water System's 1.2 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in Louisiana and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Natchitoches Parish County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village Of Clarence 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 Natchitoches Water System | 26,910 | 0 (not detected) |
| Natchitoches Parish Wwks District 2 | 8,415 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Campti Water System | 1,515 | 13 ppb |
| Bellwood Water System | 1,032 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hagewood Water System | 1,017 | 0 (not detected) |
| Creston Water System | 801 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Provencal Water System | 705 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sandy Point 480 Water System | 654 | 0.29 ppb |
| Chestnut-Readhimer Water System | 564 | 1 ppb |
| Village Of Goldonna Water System | 540 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Clarence, LA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Clarence, 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 Clarence 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.