Village Of Hodge Water System, LA
Lead reported as not detected
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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Village Of Hodge Water System
Village Of Hodge Water System serves about 479 people through 283 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 Jackson Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1049008; phone on file: 318-259-4704. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Village Of Hodge Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village Of Hodge Water System is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
How Village Of Hodge 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 Hodge Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in Louisiana and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Jackson Parish County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village Of Hodge Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Jonesboro Water System | 6,231 | 0 (not detected) |
| Weston Water System | 1,980 | 1.1 ppb |
| Punkin Center Hilltop Ws | 1,710 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Chatham Water System | 1,557 | 1 ppb |
| Ebenezer Water System | 828 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eros Community Water System | 729 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcdonald Water System | 675 | 2 ppb |
| Village Of Quitman Water System | 648 | 1 ppb |
| Spillway Estates Water System | 501 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bear Creek Water System | 435 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Village Of Hodge Water System's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your 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 Hodge 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.