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Community Water System · PWS LA1029006

Lake St John Waterworks District 1

Operator location Ferriday, Louisiana - 90% of 731 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,067 served per SDWIS.

2,067
People served (this PWS)
731
EPA violations (this PWS)
656
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Lake St John Waterworks District 1 standing, high SDWIS violation third

90% of 731 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 90% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #13,312 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Lake St John Waterworks District 1 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (731), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,067 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 90% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#13,312 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#354 of 707
Population · LA
731
Total EPA violations on record
90%
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
689
County
Concordia Parish
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
652
Monitoring Violations
56
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 419 2023
TTHM MCL 233 2023
TTHM MR 25 2015
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 25 2015
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 7 2017
Coliform (TCR) MR 6 2006
Public Notice Other 4 2022
Groundwater Rule TT 4 2021

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Lake St John Waterworks District 1 has 731 recorded EPA violations, 98% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 2% carry more. 90% of this system's own violations are health-based (656 of 731), and it ranks #13,312 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)

731 Higher than most more violations than 98% 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 Lake St John Waterworks District 1

656 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for LA1029006.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

731 violations · 2,067 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 Lake St John Waterworks District 1

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

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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