Village Of Converse Water System, LA
Exceeded the action level in the past
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 result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Village Of Converse Water System serves about 561 people through 187 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 Sabine Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1085007; phone on file: 318-567-3312. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 4 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village Of Converse Water System is 20 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 6 ppb |
| 2018 | 8 ppb |
| 2017 | 5 ppb |
| 2017 | 6 ppb |
| 2016 | 20 ppb over 15 |
How Village Of Converse 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 Converse Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 12th percentile in Louisiana and the 23rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Sabine Parish County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village Of Converse Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sabine Parish Water District 1 | 7,833 | 2 ppb |
| Ebarb Wwks Dist # 1 - Aimwell Area | 6,738 | 1 ppb |
| South Toledo Bend Water District | 5,943 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Many Water System | 4,428 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belmont Waterworks Inc | 2,805 | 2.3 ppb |
| Pendleton Water Association | 2,634 | 2.2 ppb |
| Town Of Zwolle Water System | 2,520 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ebarb Wwks Dist #1 - North Ebarb | 1,761 | 0 (not detected) |
| Union Springs Water System | 1,260 | 3 ppb |
| Village Of Florien Water System | 1,149 | 3.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Converse, 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 Converse 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.