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Community Water System · PWS LA1003007

Town of Oberlin Water System

Operator location Oberlin, Louisiana - 26% of 102 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,730 served per SDWIS.

2,730
People served (this PWS)
102
EPA violations (this PWS)
27
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Town of Oberlin Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third

26% of 102 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 26% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #11,290 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Town of Oberlin Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (102), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,730 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 26% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#11,290 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#297 of 707
Population · LA
102
Total EPA violations on record
26%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
910
County
Allen Parish
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
20
Monitoring Violations
50
Treatment Tech Violations
7

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 20 2012
E. COLI MR 13 2022
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 11 2012
TTHM MR 11 2012
Public Notice Other 10 2023
Coliform (TCR) MR 10 2013
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 8 2017
Groundwater Rule TT 7 2023
Chlorine MR 4 2016
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 1994

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Town of Oberlin Water System has 102 recorded EPA violations, 74% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 26% carry more. 26% of this system's own violations are health-based (27 of 102), and it ranks #11,290 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

102 Around the middle fewer violations than 26% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Town of Oberlin Water System

27 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for LA1003007.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

102 violations · 2,730 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems with comparable violation load

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Town of Oberlin Water System

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater