Village Of Fenton Water System, LA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 17 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
About Village Of Fenton Water System
Village Of Fenton Water System serves about 226 people through 112 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Jefferson Davis Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1053007; phone on file: 337-756-2321. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Village Of Fenton Water System's lead record
That is up 15 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village Of Fenton Water System is 17 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 5 ppb |
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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 Fenton Water System's 17 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Louisiana and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Jefferson Davis Parish County
7 other systems share Jefferson Davis Parish County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village Of Fenton 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 Jennings Water System | 9,837 | 2 ppb |
| Jeff Davis Water And Sewer Commission 1 | 9,780 | 1 ppb |
| Jeff Davis Central Waterworks District | 5,709 | 4.2 ppb |
| Town Of Welsh Water System | 4,311 | 3 ppb |
| Jeff Davis Water District 4 | 4,194 | 1.4 ppb |
| Town Of Lake Arthur Water System | 2,706 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Elton Water System | 1,512 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own 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 Fenton 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.