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12/4/2024
WT Staff
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December 4, 2024 updated 130 pm CST
Town of Mamou under system-wide BWA, Livingston Parish Ward II Water District issues BWA
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Evangeline Parish: Town of Mamou has issued a system-wide BWA following water main breaks and repairs completed water yesterday. Town of Mamou serves potable water to 4559 customers from a groundwater source in watershed Region 5.
Livingston Parish: Ward II Water District issued a BWA yesterday following a water main break on Brickyard Road off LA-16 16 in Port Vincent. Ward II water authorities made the mandatory public notification to WAFB9 local news who reported this morning that customers on Brickyard Road, Cooper Street, Louise Street and all of Sandy Ridge Subdivision should expect a loss of pressure when service is restored, a BWA until lab testing confirms the lines are free of microbiological contamination.
Ward II serves 73506 customers from a groundwater well source in watershed Region 7.
Louisiana Department of Health is responsible for the oversight of Safe Drinking Water Act SDWA compliance, assisting drinking water facilities to deliver quality drinking water. As of the latest reporting cycle, 65.4% of Louisiana's licensed drinking water facilities are running compliant operations with the regulations to ensure public safety with drinking water. See how drinking water facility compliance compares in Ohio, New York, Georgia, Louisiana and California, here.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 73% of the world population are served by safely-managed drinking water facilities, as of 2022. In Louisiana, the number of citizens served by facilities with a perfect record of SDWA compliance is lower than this figure. This benchmark for drinking water quality and equity is not a perfect comparison, however it may indicate where source water quality may be relatively more challenging and where resources to upgrade infrastructure are short of the need.
Even the best managed drinking water facilities experience periods of microbiological contamination. Power outages, loss of pressure in the distribution lines, pump failure, rupture of aging water mains, construction accidents and scheduled maintenance work can introduce contamination, prompting the boil water advisories posted here in yellow tags on the maps to the right.
See the EPA SDWA Serious Violator List for Louisiana, here.
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