HOUMA WATER TREATMENT SERVICE AREA: EPA violation history, explained
HOUMA WATER TREATMENT SERVICE AREA has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 11,658 people get their water from it, across 3,886 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
9 total violations and 3 health-based ones put HOUMA WATER TREATMENT SERVICE AREA at the 59th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,322 of 12,903.
How HOUMA WATER TREATMENT SERVICE AREA compares within LA
LA's 347 covered systems average 12.6 health-based violations each; HOUMA WATER TREATMENT SERVICE AREA carries 3, not more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for HOUMA WATER TREATMENT SERVICE AREA is from 2020-01-07 (health-based: 2018-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/23/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HOUMA WATER TREATMENT SERVICE AREA'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: Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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
HOUMA WATER TREATMENT SERVICE AREA'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. This record - 3 health-based violations on file for HOUMA WATER TREATMENT SERVICE AREA - 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.