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Village Of Florien Water System, LA

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.5 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 Florien Water System at a glance

Village Of Florien Water System serves about 1,149 people through 383 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: LA1085011; phone on file: 318-586-7286. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.

Lead results over time

That is up 2.5 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village Of Florien Water System is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20253.5 ppb
20221 ppb
20195 ppb
20163 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 Florien Water System's 3.5 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Louisiana and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).

Nearby utilities

15 other systems share Sabine Parish County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village Of Florien Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Sabine Parish Water District 17,8332 ppb
Ebarb Wwks Dist # 1 - Aimwell Area6,7381 ppb
South Toledo Bend Water District5,9430 (not detected)
Town Of Many Water System4,4280 (not detected)
Belmont Waterworks Inc2,8052.3 ppb
Pendleton Water Association2,6342.2 ppb
Town Of Zwolle Water System2,5200 (not detected)
Ebarb Wwks Dist #1 - North Ebarb1,7610 (not detected)
Union Springs Water System1,2603 ppb
Village Of Pleasant Hill Water System9902.1 ppb

Next steps for Florien, LA

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Florien, 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 Florien 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.