Community Water System · PWS LA1107003
Newellton Water System
Operator location Newellton, Louisiana - 51% of 443 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,100 served per SDWIS.
- 1,100
- People served (this PWS)
- 443
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 226
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Newellton Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
51% of 443 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 51% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #18,582 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Newellton Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (443), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,100 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 51% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #18,582 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #497 of 707
- Population · LA
- 443
- Total EPA violations on record
- 51%
- 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
- 532
- County
- Tensas Parish
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 7
- Monitoring Violations
- 118
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 219
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 102 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 79 | 2025 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 78 | 2024 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 49 | 2025 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | TT | 34 | 2025 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 27 | 2025 |
| Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 21 | 2024 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 11 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Chloramine | MR | 4 | 2013 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 4 | 2018 |
| Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 4 | 2022 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 3 | 2015 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 1 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 1 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Newellton Water System has 443 recorded EPA violations, 95% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 5% carry more. 51% of this system's own violations are health-based (226 of 443), and it ranks #18,582 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)
443 Higher than most more violations than 95% 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 Newellton Water System
226 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for LA1107003.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
443 violations · 1,100 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Newellton Water System
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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