Village Of Montgomery 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.
Who runs the water here
Village Of Montgomery Water System serves about 1,167 people through 389 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 Grant Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1043005; phone on file: 318-646-3110. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Village Of Montgomery Water System's lead record
That is down 4 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village Of Montgomery Water System is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 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 Montgomery Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 21st percentile in Louisiana and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Grant Parish County
12 other systems share Grant Parish County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village Of Montgomery Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| South Grant Water Corporation | 5,289 | 1 ppb |
| Pollock Area Water System Inc | 3,900 | 1.2 ppb |
| West Grant Water Association | 3,324 | 3 ppb |
| Town Of Colfax | 2,552 | 2 ppb |
| Central Grant Water System | 2,250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Red Hill Waterworks Inc. | 1,914 | 1.3 ppb |
| Town Of Pollock Water System | 1,353 | 0 (not detected) |
| Zone 2 Water System Inc. | 1,344 | 4.5 ppb |
| Village Of Dry Prong Water System | 1,155 | 6 ppb |
| Bob Community Waterworks | 732 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Montgomery, LA
Look up your address in Village Of Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.