Is Lafourche Crossing, LA tap water safe?
The short answer
None of the 3 utilities serving Lafourche Crossing has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records.
Thibodaux Waterworks, which serves the most people here, has nothing above a health goal in EPA’s and CDC’s records. That data covers what its report lists, not everything.
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 Lafourche Crossing’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
Thibodaux Waterworks
Louisiana · serves 14,862 people · about 430 in Lafourche Crossing
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
- Open report
Schriever Water Treatment Service Area
Louisiana · serves 116,460 people · under 100 in Lafourche Crossing
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 1.0 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
- Open report
Lafourche Water District 1
Louisiana · serves 81,609 people · under 100 in Lafourche Crossing
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Lafourche Crossing
The 3 labs Louisiana certifies closest to Lafourche Crossing, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Curtis Environmental Services, Inc.
LaPlace, LA · about 30 miles
Certified for minerals and other inorganics, disinfection byproducts
LDH Central Laboratory
Baton Rouge, LA · about 51 miles
Certified for bacteria
Water Test, Inc.
Covington, LA · about 58 miles
Certified for bacteria
ZIP codes in Lafourche Crossing
Which ZIP codes are in Lafourche Crossing: 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 Lafourche Crossing
Other towns in Lafourche Parish with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Thibodaux Waterworks’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- Decide if you want a filter at allA filter for taste or chlorine is a preference, not a need. The standards say what each kind can do.NSF/ANSI standards, decoded
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water