Black Bayou Water Assn., MS Water Quality
What's in Black Bayou Water Assn.'s water?
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.
How this compares nationally
Black Bayou Water Assn. has 169 violations on record in total, 10 of them health-based - ranking it 1,871th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 86th percentile nationally.
How Black Bayou Water Assn. compares within MS
Among the 361 MS systems in this dataset, the average is 3.1 health-based violations - Black Bayou Water Assn.'s 10 is above 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
This is what Black Bayou Water Assn. reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. This record - 10 health-based violations on file for Black Bayou Water Assn. - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.