Community Water System · PWSID LA1013017

Southeast Bienville Water System

Serves 348 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSaline, Louisiana
2 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 2005: 57 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 31 missed or late tests · 22 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-02-13.

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
4Treatment lapse2 open
31Missed or late test
22Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 94% 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

2005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12010 · Missed or late test: 220102011 · Treatment lapse: 12011 · Missed or late test: 22011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Missed or late test: 32012 · Missed or late test: 32012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Missed or late test: 52013 · Missed or late test: 52013 · Missed or late test: 52014 · Missed or late test: 132014 · Missed or late test: 132014 · Missed or late test: 132014 · Missed or late test: 132014 · Missed or late test: 132014 · Missed or late test: 132014 · Missed or late test: 132014 · Notice or report: 42014 · Notice or report: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Notice or report: 52015 · Notice or report: 52015 · Notice or report: 520152016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% treatment lapse · 454% missed or late test · 3139% notice or report · 22

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

8 ppb
7 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb

Open now (5)

  1. 2025-02-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-01-03Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  3. 2020-07-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2020-06-22Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  5. 2012-10-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-02-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-01-03Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  4. 2022-10-07Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2020-07-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2020-06-22Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  7. 2018-06-01Groundwater RuleNotification, StateBack in compliance
  8. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  9. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2017-03-04Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  11. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2016-04-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2016-04-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2016-02-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  16. 2015-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  17. 2015-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  19. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2015-06-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2015-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2015-01-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2015-01-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2014-12-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2014-12-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 32 entries
  1. 2014-10-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2014-09-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2014-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2014-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2014-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  6. 2014-08-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2014-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2014-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2014-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2014-05-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  11. 2014-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2014-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2014-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2014-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  15. 2014-03-19Public 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. 2013-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2013-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  21. 2012-10-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  22. 2012-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  23. 2012-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2012-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2011-12-28Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  26. 2011-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  27. 2011-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  28. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack 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. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  32. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served348
Service connections116
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySaline
EPA ZIP on file71070

Areas served

  • Bienville Parish

Reading this record

Southeast Bienville Water System is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 348 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.