Louisiana

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    1,263

  • Community Water Systems

    939

  • Systems with Violations

    439

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    229

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    2,442

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    12/08/2005

  • Population Served

    5,302,565

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    4.89%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    1,848

  • CWA Total Violations

    4,045

The American Community Survey

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

    7,712

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.437%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    4,640,546

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $57,852

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

    5.7%

  • MALE

    2,275,349

  • FEMALE

    2,365,197

  • MEDIAN AGE

    37.6

  • MULTIRACIAL

    4,384,962

  • WHITE

    2,669,166

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    1,456,107

  • LATINO

    255,584

  • ASIAN

    80,363

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    19,612

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    2,206

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