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Community Water System · PWS LA1021010

Wards 4 & 5 Water System

Operator location Grayson, Louisiana - 43% of 87 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,002 served per SDWIS.

1,002
People served (this PWS)
87
EPA violations (this PWS)
37
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Wards 4 & 5 Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third

43% of 87 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 43% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #19,391 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Wards 4 & 5 Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (87), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,002 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 43% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#19,391 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#512 of 707
Population · LA
87
Total EPA violations on record
43%
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
Private
Connections
334
County
Caldwell Parish
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
14
Monitoring Violations
26
Treatment Tech Violations
23

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Groundwater Rule TT 23 2019
Coliform (TCR) MCL 14 2006
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 8 2015
Public Notice Other 8 2016
Coliform (TCR) MR 8 2015
Lead and Copper Rule MR 8 2016
TTHM MR 5 2013
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 5 2013

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Wards 4 & 5 Water System has 87 recorded EPA violations, 70% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 30% carry more. 43% of this system's own violations are health-based (37 of 87), and it ranks #19,391 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)

87 Around the middle fewer violations than 30% 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 Wards 4 & 5 Water System

37 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for LA1021010.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

87 violations · 1,002 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 Wards 4 & 5 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