Village Of Mer Rouge Water System, LA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Mer Rouge Water System
Village Of Mer Rouge Water System serves about 1,098 people through 366 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 Morehouse Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1067009; phone on file: 318-647-3622. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Village Of Mer Rouge Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village Of Mer Rouge Water System is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
Against other Louisiana systems
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 Mer Rouge Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 20th percentile in Louisiana and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Morehouse Parish County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village Of Mer Rouge Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bastrop Water System | 18,105 | 4 ppb |
| Consolidated Water District No. 2 | 3,498 | 2 ppb |
| Ward 3 Water System | 1,740 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bayou Bonne Idee Ws | 1,656 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beekman Water System | 1,275 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waterworks 1 Of Morehouse, Inc | 1,266 | 0.8 ppb |
| Morehouse Central Ws | 780 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jones Mcginty Water System | 660 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Collinston Water System | 609 | 4 ppb |
| Village Of Oak Ridge Water System | 369 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Mer Rouge, LA
Look up your address in Village Of Mer Rouge 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 Mer Rouge 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.