Is BLACK BAYOU WATER ASSN.'s water safe to drink?
BLACK BAYOU WATER ASSN. has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 6,917 people get their water from it, across 2,620 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
169 total violations and 10 health-based ones put BLACK BAYOU WATER ASSN. at the 86th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,871 of 12,903.
How BLACK BAYOU WATER ASSN. compares within
Among the 244 systems in this dataset, the average is 11.2 health-based violations - BLACK BAYOU WATER ASSN.'s 10 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for BLACK BAYOU WATER ASSN. is from 2024-01-07 (health-based: 2016-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BLACK BAYOU WATER ASSN.'s flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
BLACK BAYOU WATER ASSN.'s numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 169 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.