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Colyell Community Water

Operator location Livingston, Louisiana - larger served population (> 3,309) at 4,544 people served; 57 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

4,544
People served (this PWS)
57
EPA violations (this PWS)
7
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Colyell Community Water standing, mid SDWIS violation third

4,544 people served (SDWIS) - larger served population (> 3,309). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 12% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #8,179 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Colyell Community Water lands in the middle third by violation volume (57), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (4,544; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 12% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#8,179 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#195 of 707
Population · LA
57
Total EPA violations on record
12%
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
1,171
County
Livingston Parish
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
7
Monitoring Violations
48
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MR 12 2013
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 12 2013
Chlorine MR 8 2016
Coliform (TCR) MCL 7 2003
Coliform (TCR) MR 7 2015
Lead and Copper Rule MR 6 2024
E. COLI MR 3 2014

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Colyell Community Water has 57 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 12% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 57), and it ranks #8,179 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)

57 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Colyell Community Water

EPA SDWIS lists 4,544 people served and 1,171 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

57 violations · 4,544 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems with similar served population

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

4 peers

What to do with Colyell Community Water

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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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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