Community Water System · PWSID LA1127022

Backwood Village Water System

Serves 783 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSaline, Louisiana
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Groundwater Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2004: 72 violations. 39 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 16 missed or late tests · 15 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

39Over the limit
2Treatment lapse1 open
16Missed or late test1 open
15Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 96% of active water systems in Louisiana. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2004 · Missed or late test: 12004 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12008 · Missed or late test: 32008 · Missed or late test: 32008 · Missed or late test: 32008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Missed or late test: 22009 · Missed or late test: 220102012 · Treatment lapse: 12013 · Missed or late test: 42013 · Missed or late test: 42013 · Missed or late test: 42013 · Missed or late test: 42014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Over the limit: 62018 · Over the limit: 62018 · Over the limit: 62018 · Over the limit: 62018 · Over the limit: 62018 · Over the limit: 62019 · Over the limit: 52019 · Over the limit: 52019 · Over the limit: 52019 · Over the limit: 52019 · Over the limit: 52019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Over the limit: 42020 · Over the limit: 42020 · Over the limit: 42020 · Over the limit: 42020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Over the limit: 42021 · Over the limit: 42021 · Over the limit: 42021 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Over the limit: 32025 · Over the limit: 32025 · Over the limit: 32025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
54% over the limit · 393% treatment lapse · 222% missed or late test · 1621% notice or report · 15

Across Louisiana, 31% of violations are missed or late tests and 25% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2025-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2470 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.1×)2025-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2610 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.3×)2025-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2290 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (2.9×)2024-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1980 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (2.5×)2024-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1980 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (2.5×)2024-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2410 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.0×)2024-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2290 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (2.9×)2023-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2800 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.5×)2023-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2930 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.7×)2023-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2890 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.6×)2023-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2800 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.5×)2022-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2610 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.3×)2022-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2550 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.2×)2022-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2610 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.3×)2022-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2890 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.6×)2021-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.3020 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.8×)2021-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.3040 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.8×)2021-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.3250 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (4.1×)2021-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.3020 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.8×)2020-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2880 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.6×)2020-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2750 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.4×)2020-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2680 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.4×)2020-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2660 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.3×)2019-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2730 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.4×)2019-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2830 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.5×)2019-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2670 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (3.3×)2019-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2290 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (2.9×)2019-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0630 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2018-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2120 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (2.6×)2018-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0650 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2018-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 193.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (2.4×)2018-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 62.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)2018-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 200.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (2.5×)2018-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 265.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (3.3×)2017-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 343.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (4.3×)2017-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 329.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (4.1×)2017-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 264.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (3.3×)2017-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 188.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (2.4×)2016-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 103.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.3×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (5)

  1. 2025-06-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-05-05Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  3. 2024-12-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2024-07-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2019-01-12Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2470 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-06-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-05-05Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  4. 2025-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2610 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2290 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-12-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2024-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1980 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-07-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1980 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2410 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2290 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2023-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2800 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2023-09-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2930 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2023-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2890 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2800 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2022-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2610 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2022-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2550 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2022-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2610 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2022-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2890 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2021-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.3020 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2021-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.3040 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2021-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.3250 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 47 entries
  1. 2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.3020 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2020-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2880 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2020-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2750 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2020-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2680 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2020-02-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2660 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2730 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2019-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2830 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2019-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2670 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2019-01-12Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  12. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2290 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0630 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2120 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2018-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0650 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2018-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 193.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 62.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2018-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 200.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 265.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2017-10-31Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  21. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 343.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  23. 2017-07-31Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  24. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2017-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 329.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  26. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 264.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  27. 2017-01-31Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  28. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 188.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  29. 2016-10-31Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  30. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 103.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  31. 2015-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  32. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  33. 2014-07-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  34. 2013-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  35. 2013-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  36. 2013-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  37. 2013-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  38. 2012-01-11Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  39. 2009-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  40. 2009-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  41. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  42. 2008-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  43. 2008-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  44. 2008-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  45. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  46. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  47. 2004-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served783
Service connections261
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySaline
EPA ZIP on file71070

Areas served

  • Winn Parish

Reading this record

Backwood Village Water System is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 783 people in Saline, Louisiana. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.