Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    62

  • Community Water Systems

    59

  • Systems with Violations

    17

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    10

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    109

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    02/28/2007

  • Population Served

    288,250

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    4.62%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    107

  • CWA Total Violations

    283

The American Community Survey

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

    179

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.183%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    243,175

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $66,617

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

    3.9%

  • MALE

    119,067

  • FEMALE

    124,108

  • MEDIAN AGE

    36.2

  • MULTIRACIAL

    231,805

  • WHITE

    156,204

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    62,336

  • LATINO

    11,370

  • ASIAN

    4,485

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    253

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    118

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=22055 Other .gov state water resources: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/state/louisiana/ Additional state water resources:https://www.lsu.edu/lwrri/resources/index.php