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SOUTH VERNON PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT: EPA violation history, explained

SOUTH VERNON PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT has at least one health-based violation EPA's ECHO database still lists as unaddressed - the required fix has not been reported complete. It serves 4,083 people through 1,361 service connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

7 total violations and 3 health-based ones put SOUTH VERNON PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT at the 58th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,448 of 12,903.

How SOUTH VERNON PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT compares within LA

Among the 347 LA systems in this dataset, the average is 12.6 health-based violations - SOUTH VERNON PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT's 3 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 SOUTH VERNON PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT is from 2025-05-02 (health-based: 2025-05-02). Last reported to EPA: 06/23/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

SOUTH VERNON PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT'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:

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 SOUTH VERNON PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT 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 - 3 health-based violations on file for SOUTH VERNON PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT - 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.