Waterworks 1 Of Morehouse, Inc, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 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.
About Waterworks 1 Of Morehouse, Inc
Waterworks 1 Of Morehouse, Inc serves about 1,266 people through 422 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 Morehouse Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1067011; phone on file: 318-281-7348. 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 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Waterworks 1 Of Morehouse, Inc is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Waterworks 1 Of Morehouse, Inc's 0.8 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Louisiana and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Morehouse Parish County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Waterworks 1 Of Morehouse, Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bastrop Water System | 18,105 | 4 ppb |
| Consolidated Water District No. 2 | 3,498 | 2 ppb |
| Ward 3 Water System | 1,740 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bayou Bonne Idee Ws | 1,656 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beekman Water System | 1,275 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Mer Rouge Water System | 1,098 | 0 (not detected) |
| Morehouse Central Ws | 780 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jones Mcginty Water System | 660 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Collinston Water System | 609 | 4 ppb |
| Village Of Oak Ridge Water System | 369 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bastrop, 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 Waterworks 1 Of Morehouse, Inc 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.