Village Of Tangipahoa 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 Tangipahoa Water System
Village Of Tangipahoa Water System serves about 748 people through 348 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 Tangipahoa Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1105026; phone on file: 985-229-8300. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village Of Tangipahoa Water System is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Village Of Tangipahoa 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 Tangipahoa Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 16th percentile in Louisiana and the 25th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
20 other systems share Tangipahoa Parish County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village Of Tangipahoa Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tangipahoa Parish Water District | 75,873 | 1.6 ppb |
| City Of Hammond Water System | 21,135 | 2 ppb |
| City Of Pontchatoula Water System | 6,657 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Amite Water System | 4,300 | 1 ppb |
| Utilities Inc - Hammond Heights | 4,281 | 1 ppb |
| Tangipahoa (Second Ward) Water District | 4,112 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Independence Water System | 3,052 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Kentwood Water System | 2,205 | 8 ppb |
| Town Of Roseland Water System | 1,521 | 0 (not detected) |
| Utilities Inc - Velma | 1,302 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Village Of Tangipahoa 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 Tangipahoa 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.