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1/30/2025
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January 30, 2025 254 pm CST
St Bernard Parish BWA
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
St. Bernard Parish: St. Bernard Parish Waterworks has issued a BWA for residents on Paris Road from First Assembly Church to the Parish line at Bayou Bienvenue Bridge following a water main break on Tuesday.
St Bernard Parish Waterworks supplies potable water for 44 thousand residents plus commercial buildings from a surface water source in watershed Region 8. This facility has a squeaky clean record with the EPA, no violations and no issues of non-compliance in the last three years.
US EPA has released the latest quarterly reporting audit of US drinking water facilities compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act. Louisiana drinking water facilities lost a bit of ground in the current quarter, the second consecutive period with an increase in the number of residents served by serious violator facilities. As of the stats released this month, 437,779 residents, 9.5% of Louisiana's population, have their drinking water provided by facilities with significant violations of the SDWA. Serious violations include exceeding maximum contaminant levels for any number of harmful substances regulated in US drinking water.
Of 1263 licensed drinking water facilities in Louisiana, the number with a perfect operational record has dropped slightly, from 65.4% to 62.6% as of the latest audit. The Louisiana Serious Violator List has gone from 110 to 124 facilities as of the latest information available. WTLA.us congratulates 17 facilities considered Enforcement Priorities in the last quarter that have amended significant violations and been cleared from this list of drinking water notoriety.
See the WTLA.us Serious Violator List, January 2025, here.
New Orleans Emergency Management - NOLA Ready
NOLA Ready is your partner in emergency preparedness.
"Stay connected, make a plan, gather supplies".
Text NOLAREADY to 77295 for alerts.
See NOLA.gov for more, here.
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