Community Water System · PWSID LA1013020

Old Saline Community Water System

Serves 390 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateCastor, Louisiana
3 open treatment violations.

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 2012: 23 violations. 6 treatment lapses · 8 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-05-24.

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
6Treatment lapse3 open
8Missed or late test
9Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 80% 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

200520102012 · Missed or late test: 22012 · Missed or late test: 22012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Missed or late test: 22013 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 22018 · Treatment lapse: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22025 · Treatment lapse: 32025 · Treatment lapse: 32025 · Treatment lapse: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
26% treatment lapse · 635% missed or late test · 839% notice or report · 9

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4 ppb
2 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-05-24Groundwater Rule ×3Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  2. 2021-02-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-24Groundwater Rule ×3Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  2. 2023-08-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2023-06-22Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  5. 2021-11-18Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2021-02-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  9. 2019-03-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2018-08-02Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  11. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  12. 2016-02-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2014-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2014-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2014-03-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2013-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2013-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2012-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2012-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2012-05-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served390
Service connections145
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCastor
EPA ZIP on file71016

Areas served

  • Bienville Parish

Reading this record

Old Saline Community Water System is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 390 people in Castor, 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.