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Community Water System · PWS LA1113006

Town of Gueydan Water System

Operator location Gueydan, Louisiana - 51% of 79 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,016 served per SDWIS.

2,016
People served (this PWS)
79
EPA violations (this PWS)
40
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Town of Gueydan Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third

51% of 79 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 #13,466 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Town of Gueydan Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (79), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,016 (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.

#13,466 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#357 of 707
Population · LA
79
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
672
County
Vermilion Parish
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
12
Monitoring Violations
15
Treatment Tech Violations
28

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Groundwater Rule TT 17 2025
Lead and Copper Rule MR 15 2022
Public Notice Other 14 2023
Coliform (TCR) MCL 12 2012
Lead and Copper Rule TT 10 2023
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 2 2017
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 1 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Town of Gueydan Water System has 79 recorded EPA violations, 68% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 32% carry more. 51% of this system's own violations are health-based (40 of 79), and it ranks #13,466 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)

79 Around the middle fewer violations than 32% 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 Town of Gueydan Water System

40 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for LA1113006.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

79 violations · 2,016 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Town of Gueydan 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