Woodside Mhp, LA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Woodside Mhp at a glance
Woodside Mhp serves about 150 people through 50 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Tangipahoa Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1105090; phone on file: 225-405-0106. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 6 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Woodside Mhp is 18 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Woodside Mhp 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. Woodside Mhp's 8 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Louisiana and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Tangipahoa Parish County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Woodside Mhp. 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) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Denham Springs, 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 Woodside Mhp 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.