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Community Water System · PWS LA1065005

Bayou Macon Water System

Operator location Delhi, Louisiana - 44% of 171 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,041 served per SDWIS.

1,041
People served (this PWS)
171
EPA violations (this PWS)
75
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Bayou Macon Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third

44% of 171 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 44% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #19,067 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Bayou Macon Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (171), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,041 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 44% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#19,067 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#507 of 707
Population · LA
171
Total EPA violations on record
44%
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
347
County
Madison Parish
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
68
Monitoring Violations
48
Treatment Tech Violations
7

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 49 2018
Public Notice Other 20 2017
TTHM MR 20 2015
Coliform (TCR) MCL 19 2013
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 17 2017
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 17 2014
Lead and Copper Rule MR 11 2017
Groundwater Rule TT 7 2020

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Bayou Macon Water System has 171 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 44% of this system's own violations are health-based (75 of 171), and it ranks #19,067 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)

171 Higher than most more violations than 83% 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 Bayou Macon Water System

75 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for LA1065005.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

171 violations · 1,041 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 Bayou Macon 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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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater