Ascension Parish, Louisiana

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    30

  • Community Water Systems

    19

  • Systems with Violations

    8

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    3

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    39

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    06/26/2017

  • Population Served

    35,271

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    8.13%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    137

  • CWA Total Violations

    272

The American Community Survey

  • HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    32

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.0695%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    126,973

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $93,800

  • PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES BELOW POVERTY LEVEL (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    2.6%

  • MALE

    62,764

  • FEMALE

    64,209

  • MEDIAN AGE

    36.2

  • MULTIRACIAL

    119,144

  • WHITE

    84,232

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    28,849

  • LATINO

    7,829

  • ASIAN

    1,525

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    251

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    97

To learn more about individual water systems and violations please visit the echo.epa.gov interactive map for this county here: https://echo.epa.gov/facilities/facility-search/results?p_st=LA&p_fips=22005 Other .gov state water resources: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/state/louisiana/ Additional state water resources:https://www.lsu.edu/lwrri/resources/index.php