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Community Water System · PWS LA1097011

Village of Palmetto Water System

Operator location Palmetto, Louisiana - 74% of 199 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,178 served per SDWIS.

2,178
People served (this PWS)
199
EPA violations (this PWS)
148
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Village of Palmetto Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third

74% of 199 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 74% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,946 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Village of Palmetto Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (199), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,178 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 74% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#12,946 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#344 of 707
Population · LA
199
Total EPA violations on record
74%
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
726
County
St. Landry Parish
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
71
Monitoring Violations
32
Treatment Tech Violations
77

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Groundwater Rule TT 53 2023
TTHM MCL 40 2024
Coliform (TCR) MCL 28 2014
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 23 2023
TTHM MR 12 2013
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 12 2013
Public Notice Other 12 2021
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 4 2016
Chlorine MR 4 2016
Revised Total Coliform Rule MCL 3 2022
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 2 1999
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 1 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 1 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Village of Palmetto Water System has 199 recorded EPA violations, 85% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 15% carry more. 74% of this system's own violations are health-based (148 of 199), and it ranks #12,946 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)

199 Higher than most more violations than 85% 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 Village of Palmetto Water System

148 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for LA1097011.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

199 violations · 2,178 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 Village of Palmetto Water System

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

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater