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Community Water System · PWS LA1009008

Village of Hessmer Water System

Operator location Hessmer, Louisiana - 72% of 25 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 3,246 served per SDWIS.

3,246
People served (this PWS)
25
EPA violations (this PWS)
18
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Village of Hessmer Water System standing, mid SDWIS violation third

72% of 25 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 72% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #10,060 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Village of Hessmer Water System lands in the middle third by violation volume (25), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 3,246 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 72% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#10,060 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#264 of 707
Population · LA
25
Total EPA violations on record
72%
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
1,082
County
Avoyelles Parish
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
3
Monitoring Violations
2
Treatment Tech Violations
15

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Groundwater Rule TT 14 2021
Coliform (TCR) MCL 3 2003
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 2 2024
Lead and Copper Rule MR 2 2017
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 1 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Village of Hessmer Water System has 25 recorded EPA violations, 37% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 62% carry more. 72% of this system's own violations are health-based (18 of 25), and it ranks #10,060 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)

25 Lower than most fewer violations than 62% 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 Village of Hessmer Water System

18 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for LA1009008.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

25 violations · 3,246 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Village of Hessmer Water System

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Louisiana compares on the same EPA violation measures. Louisiana systems
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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