What's in Pruden Creek water

Covington, St. Tammany Parish · PWS ID LA1103197

The short answer

Pruden Creek water is soft, about 1.2 grains, chlorine-disinfected groundwater. The fix for this system: a whole-home carbon filter, a pH neutralizer, plus reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink.

Pruden Creek water carries chlorine at 2 parts per million, and it tests soft at 20.6 milligrams per liter, about 1.2 grains. The published report also shows a pH of 5.97, on the acidic side. A lead result is in the report as well: the latest monitoring round came in above the federal action level.

Beneath the surface

Your water reportPruden Creek

Magnolia - Pruden Creek (CSWR) · PWS ID LA1103197 · 2025 water quality report

chlorine, 2 ppm, as much as a swimming pool · The pool taste and smellCarbon takes it out

acidic water, pH 5.97 · Blue-green stains around copper drainsA neutralizer brings it to balance

the latest monitoring round came in above the federal action level, in the public report · A lead result worth knowing aboutCertified lead-reduction filtration at the tap

That pool taste in your coffee and ice is chlorine, the disinfectant this system uses. The report also shows a lead result, and certified filtration at the drinking tap addresses it.

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What we'd install

Based on the report, whole-home carbon for the chlorine at every tap. A pH neutralizer goes in ahead of it to bring the water back to balance. Reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink is in this package because it carries certified lead reduction for the drinking water tap, and better drinking water comes with it.

**Whole-home carbon filter**Cleans every tap in the house

**Reverse osmosis**Drinking water at the kitchen sink

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What this does for your home

Easier on the rubber seals, gaskets, and hoses inside your appliances
No chlorine taste or smell in your coffee, tea, and ice
Balanced water that stops eating at your copper plumbing
Certified lead reduction on the water you drink and cook with
Bottled-quality drinking water on tap for pennies a gallon

Cutaway of a water heater with sediment settled at the bottom

Easier on the parts that wear out

Sediment settles in your water heater and lowers its efficiency, and chlorine and chloramine embrittle the rubber seals, gaskets, and hoses inside your appliances over time. Filtering the whole house is gentler on all of it.

U.S. Dept. of Energy Energy Saver; ASTM D6284.

Source: Magnolia - Pruden Creek (CSWR) annual water quality report.PWS ID LA1103197, verifiable in the EPA Safe Drinking Water database →Figures are as published by the system; see the original report for sampling methods and ranges.Get my written plan and price →

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The public recordNo violations on record

This Magnolia Water system (Pruden Creek) has a clean violation record. EPA shows no drinking-water violations as of August 2026. Its operator, Magnolia Water, is under a Louisiana Public Service Commission investigative audit of its billing and service practices, due February 2027.

EPA ECHO · LPSC Docket U-37584. Public records, current as of August 2026. They update quarterly. Operators: contact us to correct an error.

What this means at your house

Your water arrives with chlorine in it, at 2 parts per million. That is the disinfectant the Pruden Creek system uses, and it is the taste people notice in coffee, in ice, and in the first glass of the day. For context, swimming pools are kept between 1 and 3 parts per million of chlorine. This water arrives in that same range. Carbon takes it out at every tap in the house.

This is soft water. Hardness tests at 20.6 milligrams per liter, about 1.2 grains, and for a family using around 300 gallons a day that puts roughly 19 pounds of dissolved rock through the house in a year. Genuinely hard water runs well past a hundred pounds a year, and that difference is why a softener is not in the package for this neighborhood.

The water here is groundwater, pumped from Well 1 and Well 2. The pH here runs acidic, at 5.97. Acidic water works on copper plumbing, which is where blue-green stains around drains come from. A neutralizer brings the pH back to balance ahead of everything else. The published report for this system carries a lead result: the latest monitoring round came in above the federal action level. Certified lead-reduction filtration at the drinking water tap is the piece that addresses it.

How the report becomes the recommendation

Each finding decides a piece of the package, including the pieces we leave out.

The report shows	At your house	The answer	Why that one
Chlorine at 2 ppm	The taste and smell in coffee, ice, and the first glass of the day	Whole-home carbon	Chlorine sticks to carbon on contact, and a full-size tank gives the water that contact time.
Hardness at 1.2 grains, soft	No scale problem to fix	No softener	The resin would have nothing to grab, so it stays out of the quote.
pH of 5.97, acidic	Blue-green stains around copper drains	pH neutralizer	Bringing the pH back to neutral stops the water from working on your copper.
A lead result in the public report	It matters most at the tap you drink from	Reverse osmosis with certified lead reduction	The certification is specific to lead at the drinking tap.

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