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Community Water System · PWS LA1111021

Sardis Water System

Operator location Gilbert, Louisiana - 66% of 707 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,404 served per SDWIS.

1,404
People served (this PWS)
707
EPA violations (this PWS)
464
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Sardis Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third

66% of 707 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 66% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #16,507 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Sardis Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (707), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,404 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 66% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#16,507 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#444 of 707
Population · LA
707
Total EPA violations on record
66%
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
468
County
Union Parish
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
408
Monitoring Violations
136
Treatment Tech Violations
56

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 399 2025
TTHM MR 81 2023
Public Notice Other 71 2025
Groundwater Rule TT 56 2024
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 47 2015
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 23 2017
Coliform (TCR) MCL 9 2009
Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule MR 4 2010
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2015

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Sardis Water System has 707 recorded EPA violations, 98% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 2% carry more. 66% of this system's own violations are health-based (464 of 707), and it ranks #16,507 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)

707 Higher than most more violations than 98% 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 Sardis Water System

464 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for LA1111021.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

707 violations · 1,404 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 Sardis 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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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