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3/7/2025
Sarah Thiessen
 Got water questions? Give us a call at 877-52-WATER (877-529-2837), or email us at info@wtla.us
Friday, March 7 2025 234 pm CDT
SDWA Box
St Landry Parish - City of Opelousas Water Treatment Plant
Sewer upgrade prompts BWA for parts of Opelousas
St Landry Parish - City of Opelousas Water Treatment Plant
March 6 2025 - A precautionary BWA has been lifted for parts of the City of Opelousas. On March 3rd, a BWA was issued for customers connecting on Wilson Drive, Charles Avenue and John Walton St following work to upgrade the sewer system.
See more Louisiana Drinking Water Facility Profiles, here.
Drinking Water Facility Profile: City of Opelousas Water Treatment Plant
EPA Status: Violation Identified
LA Dept of Health Grade: D score: 62%
Owner: local government
Location: Opelousas, LA
Parish: St Landry Parish
Active Permit: LA1097010
System Type: community water system
Activity date: Dec 31, 1949
Population Served: 19764
Service Connections: 6588
Watershed Region: 5
Source: groundwater
Admin Contact: Julius Alsandor 337-948-2520
Latest Compliance Inspections: Sanitary survey, complete: June 28, 2023 (State)
Significant Deficiencies in Finished Water Storage, pumps, and source
Minor Deficiencies in 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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3 out of 12
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17
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1
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Serious Violations and non-compliance
Monitoring and Reporting Violation - Lead and Copper Rule noted June 8 2018 to March 27 2023 - resolved
Consumer Confidence Rule Violation - noted July 1, 2024 - unaddressed
Treatment Technique violation of the Groundwater Rule - noted August 22 2019 to present - addressed
*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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