Community Water System · PWSID LA1015039

East Central Bossier Water System

Serves 885 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentBenton, Louisiana
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On record since 2011: 26 violations. 14 over the limit · 9 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-07-01.

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

14Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
9Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 82% 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

200520102011 · Notice or report: 12013 · Over the limit: 22013 · Over the limit: 22014 · Over the limit: 42014 · Over the limit: 42014 · Over the limit: 42014 · Over the limit: 42014 · Missed or late test: 62014 · Missed or late test: 62014 · Missed or late test: 62014 · Missed or late test: 62014 · Missed or late test: 62014 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Over the limit: 120202024 · 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 · 1435% missed or late test · 912% notice or report · 3

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)2017-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 92.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 93.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.2×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 181.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (2.3×)2016-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 275.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (3.4×)2016-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 258.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (3.2×)2015-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 343.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (4.3×)2015-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 335.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (4.2×)2015-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 357.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (4.5×)2014-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 341.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (4.3×)2014-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 324.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (4.0×)2014-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 340.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (4.2×)2014-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 260.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (3.2×)2013-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 198.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (2.5×)2013-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 129.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.6×)
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

6 ppb
2 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 92.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 93.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 181.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2016-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2016-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 275.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 258.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 343.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 335.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2015-04-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2015-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 357.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2015-01-31Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  14. 2014-12-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2014-12-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2014-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 341.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2014-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2014-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2014-07-31Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  20. 2014-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 324.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2014-05-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  22. 2014-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 340.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2014-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 260.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2013-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 198.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  25. 2013-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 129.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
Show the other 1 entries
  1. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served885
Service connections295
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBenton
EPA ZIP on file71006

Areas served

  • Bossier Parish

Reading this record

East Central Bossier Water System is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 885 people in Benton, 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.