Village Of Sikes 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 Sikes Water System
Village Of Sikes Water System serves about 639 people through 213 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 Winn Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1127010; phone on file: 318-628-2634. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village Of Sikes 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 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
How Village Of Sikes 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 Sikes Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in Louisiana and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Winn Parish County
11 other systems share Winn Parish County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village Of Sikes Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Winnfield Water System | 7,194 | 1 ppb |
| West Winn Water System, Inc | 1,965 | 4.6 ppb |
| Tannehill Water System | 1,932 | 3 ppb |
| Village Of Atlanta Water Supply | 900 | 6 ppb |
| Pleasant Hills-Crossroads Water Systems | 840 | 1.4 ppb |
| Backwood Village Water System | 783 | 1 ppb |
| Village Of Dodson Water System | 714 | 1 ppb |
| Hudson Gaars Mill Water System | 660 | 1 ppb |
| Village Of Calvin Water System | 591 | 6 ppb |
| Joyce Water Supply | 474 | 0.73 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Village Of Sikes 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 Sikes 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.