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Is Abbeville, LA tap water safe?

3 utilities serve Abbeville, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

1 of the 3 utilities serving Abbeville has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records: City of Abbeville Water System.

City of Abbeville Water System, which serves the most people here, has 2 results above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 2.3 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Abbeville’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in City of Abbeville Water System’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Abbeville

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Louisiana certifies.

The 3 labs Louisiana certifies closest to Abbeville, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Element Materials Technology Lafayette, LLC

    Lafayette, LA · about 21 miles

    Certified for lead and copper, metals

  • SGS North America, Inc. - Scott

    Scott, LA · about 26 miles

    Certified for nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

  • LDH Lake Charles Regional Laboratory

    Lake Charles, LA · about 65 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (337) 475-3236

All 48 certified labs for Louisiana

ZIP codes in Abbeville

Which ZIP codes are in Abbeville: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: LDH, laboratories certified by Louisiana for drinking water analysis; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Abbeville

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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