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2/26/2025
WT Staff
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Wisner Water System
Manganese above health guidelines in Jan prompts public notice enforcement action
Franklin Parish
Feb 26 2025 Town of Wisner Water System - finished water samples collected Jan 14 2025 detected manganese at 0.6 mg/L, double the limit considered safe for infants under six months of age.
Manganese is an inorganic chemical naturally occurring in well water, regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Four drinking water facilities in Franklin Parish have detectable levels of manganese in the current quarter, (Jan 1 to Mar 31, 2025) including Wisner, North Franklin WaterWorks, West Winnsboro Water System and Turkey Creek Water System. According to the Louisiana Dept of Health, public notice is required when contaminants are detected above health guidance, in this case, .3 mg/L for infants. The Wisner Water System had until Feb 25 to comply with the public notice requirement. WT called the system administrator, Marc McCarthy for a statement. McCarthy was not in the office, according to Town staff.
Louisiana Department of Health guidance for manganese is as follows:
DO NOT GIVE TAP WATER TO INFANTS. Formula and other food preparations for infants under 6
months old should not be prepared with tap water. Use bottled water or alternative sources of water for
infants. Making formula or foods with water containing manganese levels above the health advisory can
increase an infant’s risk of health problems.
DO NOT BOIL THE WATER unless your water system issues a Boil Advisory per LDH requirements.
Boiling, freezing, or letting water stand does not reduce manganese. Boiling can increase levels of
manganese because manganese remains behind when the water evaporates.
Adults and children of all ages can continue to bathe and shower, brush their teeth, and wash clothes,
food, and dishes in tap water.
For more Louisiana Drinking Water Facility Profiles, click here.
Drinking Water Facility Profile: Wisner Water System
EPA Status: Violations identified in 12 of the last 12 quarters
LA Dept of Health Grade: C score: 79%
Owner: local government
Location: Wisner, LA
Parish: Franklin
Active Permit: LA1041007
System Type: community water system
Activity date: Jan 1, 1950
Population Served: 1221
Service Connections: 407
Watershed Region: 3
Source: groundwater wells
Admin Contact: Marc Mcarty 318-724-6568
Latest Compliance Inspections: Sanitary survey, complete: Aug 8, 2024 (State)
Significant Deficiencies in Finished Water Storage, Source, Treatment
The following information gathered from federal EPA pertains to the quarter ending Sep 30 2024 (data last refreshed on EPA database Jan 11, 2025)
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Non-compliant inspections
(of the previous 12 quarters)
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with Significant Violations
(of the previous 12 quarters)
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Informal
Enforcement Actions
(last 5 yrs)
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Formal
Enforcement Actions
(last 5 years)
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12 out of 12
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0 out of 12
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14
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1
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Non-Compliance
Consumer Confidence Rule, Public Notice violations
Monitoring and Reporting Violation - Lead and Copper Rule noted Nov 26, 2022 to present, unaddressed
*Note that drinking water information provided on this site is aggregated from the federal EPA database, state resources and local government sources where available.
EPA publishes violation and enforcement data quarterly, based on the inspection reports of the previous quarter. Water systems, states and EPA take up to three months to verify this data is accurate and complete.
Specific questions about your local water supply should be directed to the facility.
The EPA safe drinking water facilities data available to the public presents what is known to the government based upon the most recently available information for more than one million regulated facilities. EPA and states inspect a percentage of facilities each year, but many facilities, particularly smaller ones, may not have received a recent inspection. It is possible that facilities do have violations that have not yet been discovered, thus are shown as compliant in the system.
EPA cannot positively state that facilities without violations shown in ECHO are necessarily fully compliant with environmental laws. Additionally, some violations at smaller facilities do not need to be reported from the states to EPA. If ECHO shows a recent inspection and the facility is shown with no violations identified, users of the ECHO site can be more confident that the facility is in compliance with federal programs.
The compliance status of smaller facilities that have not had recent inspections or review by EPA or the states may be unknown or only available via state data systems.
See yellow tags on the front page map for boil water advisories, red for do not consume.
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