Village Of Ridgecrest Water Supply, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 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 Ridgecrest Water Supply at a glance
Village Of Ridgecrest Water Supply serves about 684 people through 228 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 Concordia Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1029009; phone on file: 318-757-4497. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village Of Ridgecrest Water Supply is 7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 7 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 Ridgecrest Water Supply's 1.8 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Louisiana and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Concordia Parish County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village Of Ridgecrest Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Concordia Waterworks District 1 | 6,921 | 3 ppb |
| Town Of Vidalia Water System | 6,354 | 1 ppb |
| Monterey Rural Water System Inc | 5,250 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of Ferriday Water System | 3,816 | 11.4 ppb |
| Lake St John Waterworks District 1 | 2,067 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Clayton Water System | 723 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ridgecrest, 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 Ridgecrest Water Supply 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.