Walker Community System, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Walker Community System
Walker Community System serves about 417 people through 139 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Jackson Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1049023; phone on file: 318-278-4517. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Walker Community System is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 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. Walker Community System's 2 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Louisiana and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Jackson Parish County
17 other systems share Jackson Parish County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Walker Community System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Jonesboro Water System | 6,231 | 0 (not detected) |
| Weston Water System | 1,980 | 1.1 ppb |
| Punkin Center Hilltop Ws | 1,710 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Chatham Water System | 1,557 | 1 ppb |
| Ebenezer Water System | 828 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eros Community Water System | 729 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcdonald Water System | 675 | 2 ppb |
| Village Of Quitman Water System | 648 | 1 ppb |
| Spillway Estates Water System | 501 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Hodge Water System | 479 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jonesboro, 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 Walker Community 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.