Community Water System · PWSID LA1103174

Salt Bayou Kampground - Vista Sites

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSaint Amant, Louisiana
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2004: 16 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 4 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-12-20.

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
2Treatment lapse
4Missed or late test2 open
10Notice or report

More violations on record than 73% 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 · Notice or report: 120052010 · Notice or report: 22010 · Notice or report: 220102011 · Missed or late test: 12011 · Notice or report: 22011 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
13% treatment lapse · 225% missed or late test · 463% notice or report · 10

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2024-12-20Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2022-02-20Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-12-20Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2022-02-20Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  7. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2020-04-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2020-01-16Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  10. 2016-05-12Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  11. 2011-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  12. 2011-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  13. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2010-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  15. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections33
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySaint Amant
EPA ZIP on file70774

Areas served

  • St. Tammany Parish

Reading this record

Salt Bayou Kampground - Vista Sites is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Saint Amant, 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.