Community Water System · PWSID LA1013007

Friendship Water System

Serves 777 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 2001: 65 violations. 7 treatment lapses · 32 missed or late tests · 26 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-07-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
7Treatment lapse1 open
32Missed or late test1 open
26Notice or report

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

2001 · Notice or report: 120052008 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Missed or late test: 32009 · Missed or late test: 32009 · Missed or late test: 32010 · Missed or late test: 32010 · Missed or late test: 32010 · Missed or late test: 320102011 · Missed or late test: 22011 · Missed or late test: 22011 · Notice or report: 22011 · Notice or report: 22012 · Missed or late test: 22012 · Missed or late test: 22012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 32013 · Missed or late test: 52013 · Missed or late test: 52013 · Missed or late test: 52013 · Missed or late test: 52013 · Missed or late test: 52013 · Notice or report: 22013 · Notice or report: 22014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 32020 · Treatment lapse: 52020 · Treatment lapse: 52020 · Treatment lapse: 52020 · Treatment lapse: 52020 · Treatment lapse: 52020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
11% treatment lapse · 749% missed or late test · 3240% notice or report · 26

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

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 7 results on file · action level 15 ppb

23 ppb
9 ppb
9 ppb
9 ppb
6 ppb
2 ppb
0 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

3.6 mg/L
2.1 mg/L
1.9 mg/L

Open now (2)

  1. 2022-08-08Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  2. 2021-11-10Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2022-08-08Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  3. 2021-11-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2021-11-10Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  5. 2021-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  6. 2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  7. 2020-11-06Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  8. 2020-07-11Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  9. 2020-04-21Groundwater Rule ×3Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  10. 2020-03-07Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2020-02-28Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  12. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2019-11-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  14. 2019-11-06Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2019-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2019-07-11Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  18. 2019-04-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  20. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  21. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  23. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2017-04-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2017-03-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 36 entries
  1. 2017-02-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2016-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2016-02-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2015-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2015-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2015-02-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2014-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2014-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2013-12-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2013-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2013-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2013-05-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2013-01-01Dbp Stage 2Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  17. 2013-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2013-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2012-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  20. 2012-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2012-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2012-05-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2011-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  25. 2011-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  26. 2011-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  27. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  28. 2010-07-02Dbp Stage 2Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  29. 2010-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  30. 2010-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  31. 2009-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  32. 2009-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  33. 2009-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  34. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  35. 2008-04-01Dbp Stage 2Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  36. 2001-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served777
Service connections259
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySaline
EPA ZIP on file71070

Areas served

  • Bienville Parish

Reading this record

Friendship Water System is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 777 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.