Community Water System · PWS LA1039006
Point Blue/Chataiginer Water System
Operator location Ville Platte, Louisiana - 53% of 47 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 3,471 served per SDWIS.
- 3,471
- People served (this PWS)
- 47
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 25
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Point Blue/Chataiginer Water System standing, mid SDWIS violation third
53% of 47 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 53% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #9,697 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Point Blue/Chataiginer Water System lands in the middle third by violation volume (47), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (3,471; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 53% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #9,697 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #250 of 707
- Population · LA
- 47
- Total EPA violations on record
- 53%
- 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
- 1,157
- County
- Evangeline Parish
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 15
- Monitoring Violations
- 18
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 10
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 15 | 2010 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 10 | 2024 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2013 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2013 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2016 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2016 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Point Blue/Chataiginer Water System has 47 recorded EPA violations, 55% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 45% carry more. 53% of this system's own violations are health-based (25 of 47), and it ranks #9,697 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)
47 Around the middle fewer violations than 45% 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 Point Blue/Chataiginer Water System
25 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for LA1039006.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
47 violations · 3,471 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Point Blue/Chataiginer Water System
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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