Is WEST VERNON PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT's water safe to drink?
WEST VERNON PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,365 people get their water from it, across 1,455 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
WEST VERNON PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT has 7 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,446th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 58th percentile nationally.
How WEST VERNON PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT compares within LA
Among the 347 LA systems in this dataset, the average is 12.6 health-based violations - WEST 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 WEST VERNON PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT is from 2021-01-07 (health-based: 2021-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/23/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WEST 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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what WEST 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. Between the utility's meter and WEST VERNON PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,446th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.