Village Of Clayton Water System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Village Of Clayton Water System at a glance
Village Of Clayton Water System serves about 723 people through 292 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 Concordia Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1029002; phone on file: 318-757-8540. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 11 ppb from 13 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village Of Clayton Water System is 13 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
How Village Of Clayton Water System 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 Clayton Water System's 2 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Louisiana and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Concordia Parish County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village Of Clayton Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Concordia Waterworks District 1 | 6,921 | 3 ppb |
| Town Of Vidalia Water System | 6,354 | 1 ppb |
| Monterey Rural Water System Inc | 5,250 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of Ferriday Water System | 3,816 | 11.4 ppb |
| Lake St John Waterworks District 1 | 2,067 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Ridgecrest Water Supply | 684 | 1.8 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Clayton, 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 Clayton 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. 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.