Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    32

  • Community Water Systems

    27

  • Systems with Violations

    9

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    7

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    47

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    03/30/2020

  • Population Served

    189,018

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    4.63%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    39

  • CWA Total Violations

    89

The American Community Survey

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

    238

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.399%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    159,585

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $49,261

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

    6.3%

  • MALE

    77,016

  • FEMALE

    82,569

  • MEDIAN AGE

    36.5

  • MULTIRACIAL

    155,876

  • WHITE

    90,693

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    59,433

  • LATINO

    3,709

  • ASIAN

    1,854

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    174

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    19

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=22073 Other .gov state water resources: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/state/louisiana/ Additional state water resources:https://www.lsu.edu/lwrri/resources/index.php