Community Water System · PWSID LA1119022

Palmetto Water Works Inc

Serves 285 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateDoyline, Louisiana
4 open treatment violations.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform Rule, 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 2003: 21 violations. 5 treatment lapses · 5 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-10.

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
5Treatment lapse4 open
5Missed or late test1 open
11Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 78% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 1200520102013 · Missed or late test: 22013 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 32015 · Notice or report: 32015 · Notice or report: 320152016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22025 · Treatment lapse: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
24% treatment lapse · 524% missed or late test · 552% notice or report · 11

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

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

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

24 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (8)

  1. 2025-07-10Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  2. 2023-12-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 2023-09-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2023-08-12Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  5. 2023-02-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2022-12-26Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  7. 2019-02-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-10Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  2. 2023-12-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 2023-09-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2023-08-12Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  5. 2023-02-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2022-12-26Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  7. 2020-11-27Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  8. 2019-12-06Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  9. 2019-02-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2018-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2016-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  12. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2015-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  14. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2015-02-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2014-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2013-08-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2013-08-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served285
Service connections95
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityDoyline
EPA ZIP on file71023

Areas served

  • Webster Parish

Reading this record

Palmetto Water Works Inc is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 285 people in Doyline, 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.