Rapides Parish, Louisiana

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    24

  • Community Water Systems

    22

  • Systems with Violations

    3

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    2

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    34

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    05/20/2019

  • Population Served

    166,135

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    3.45%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    28

  • CWA Total Violations

    82

The American Community Survey

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

    313

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.645%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    129,536

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $55,407

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

    7.1%

  • MALE

    62,847

  • FEMALE

    66,689

  • MEDIAN AGE

    37.7

  • MULTIRACIAL

    124,964

  • WHITE

    78,322

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    40,238

  • LATINO

    4,572

  • ASIAN

    1,538

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    488

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    15

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=22079 Other .gov state water resources: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/state/louisiana/ Additional state water resources:https://www.lsu.edu/lwrri/resources/index.php