St Tam Parish - Briarwood Terrace, LA Water Quality
What's in St Tam Parish - Briarwood Terrace's water?
St Tam Parish - Briarwood Terrace has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 17,536 people get their water from it, across 5,123 connections.
How this compares nationally
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, St Tam Parish - Briarwood Terrace ranks 3,197th by violation burden (75th percentile) - 13 violations total, 6 health-based.
How St Tam Parish - Briarwood Terrace compares within LA
LA's 347 covered systems average 12.6 health-based violations each; St Tam Parish - Briarwood Terrace carries 6, not more than typical for the state. 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 St Tam Parish - Briarwood Terrace is from 2013-01-04 (health-based: 2006-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/23/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
St Tam Parish - Briarwood Terrace'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)
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 St Tam Parish - Briarwood Terrace 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 - 6 health-based violations on file for St Tam Parish - Briarwood Terrace - 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.