Village Of Pleasant Hill Water System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 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.
About Village Of Pleasant Hill Water System
Village Of Pleasant Hill Water System serves about 990 people through 330 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: LA1085021; phone on file: 318-796-3680. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Village Of Pleasant Hill Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village Of Pleasant Hill Water System is 4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
How Village Of Pleasant Hill 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 Pleasant Hill Water System's 2.1 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Louisiana and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Sabine Parish County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village Of Pleasant Hill Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sabine Parish Water District 1 | 7,833 | 2 ppb |
| Ebarb Wwks Dist # 1 - Aimwell Area | 6,738 | 1 ppb |
| South Toledo Bend Water District | 5,943 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Many Water System | 4,428 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belmont Waterworks Inc | 2,805 | 2.3 ppb |
| Pendleton Water Association | 2,634 | 2.2 ppb |
| Town Of Zwolle Water System | 2,520 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ebarb Wwks Dist #1 - North Ebarb | 1,761 | 0 (not detected) |
| Union Springs Water System | 1,260 | 3 ppb |
| Village Of Florien Water System | 1,149 | 3.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pleasant Hill, 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 Pleasant Hill 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.