Orleans Parish, Louisiana

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    10

  • Community Water Systems

    2

  • Systems with Violations

    0

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    0

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    0

  • Population Served

    389,093

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    1.57%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    15

  • CWA Total Violations

    51

The American Community Survey

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

    541

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.348%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    380,408

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $51,116

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

    5.3%

  • MALE

    179,688

  • FEMALE

    200,720

  • MEDIAN AGE

    37.9

  • MULTIRACIAL

    358,880

  • WHITE

    117,202

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    215,595

  • LATINO

    21,528

  • ASIAN

    10,680

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    404

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    61

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=22071 Other .gov state water resources: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/state/louisiana/ Additional state water resources:https://www.lsu.edu/lwrri/resources/index.php