Wbr Public Utilities, LA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Wbr Public Utilities at a glance
Wbr Public Utilities serves about 4,329 people through 1,443 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in West Baton Rouge Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1121008; phone on file: 225-336-2406. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
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 Wbr Public Utilities is 1 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
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. Wbr Public Utilities's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 36th percentile in Louisiana and the 34th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in West Baton Rouge Parish County
4 other systems share West Baton Rouge Parish County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wbr Public Utilities. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| West Baton Rouge Water Works District 2 | 13,437 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Port Allen Water System | 6,759 | 1 ppb |
| Wbr District 4 -Section Road Winterville | 5,571 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wbr District 4 - Arbroth | 555 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Port Allen, LA
Look up your address in Wbr Public Utilities'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 Wbr Public Utilities 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.