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St. Gertrude Heights water, explained

Covington, St. Tammany Parish · PWS ID LA1103154

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The short answer

St. Gertrude Heights water is chlorine-disinfected groundwater. The recommendation for this water: a whole-home catalytic carbon filter plus optional reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink.

If the tap water tastes like it came from the pool, this page is why. St. Gertrude Heights water carries chlorine at 1.7 parts per million. For perspective, some people can taste or smell chlorine at levels as low as 0.3 parts per million.

If the tap water tastes like it came from the pool, this page is why. St.

Why this is the recommendation

If the tap water tastes like it came from the pool, this page is why. St. Gertrude Heights water carries chlorine at 1.7 parts per million. For perspective, some people can taste or smell chlorine at levels as low as 0.3 parts per million.

What you may notice in your waterBeneath the surfaceWhat gets your attention?
What you notice

The smell and the way showers feel

  • Pool-like smell when the shower gets hot
  • Skin that feels tight or dry afterward
  • Hair that feels dry or harder to manage
  • Water, coffee, or tea that tastes off
What St. Gertrude Heights reports

The published result that matters here

  • chlorine, 1.7 ppm, about 6 times the level some people can detect

Source: St. Tammany Parish - St. Gertrude · 2025 water quality report · PWS ID LA1103154

What this report does not rule out

PFAS cannot be seen, smelled, or tastedPFAS are a large family of long-lasting manufactured chemicals. They are often called “forever chemicals” because they break down very slowly.

This report does not include a usable PFAS result. No result is not the same as no PFAS. Certified kitchen reverse osmosis reduces PFOA and PFOS in the water used for drinking and cooking.

Your water report

Your water reportSt. Gertrude Heights

St. Tammany Parish - St. Gertrude · PWS ID LA1103154 · 2025 water quality report

chlorine, 1.7 ppm, about 6 times the level some people can detect · The pool taste and smellCatalytic carbon takes it out
That pool taste in your coffee and morning glass is chlorine, the disinfectant this system uses. These numbers come straight from your water utility's published report.
What we'd install

Based on the report, whole-home catalytic carbon for the chlorine at every tap. Add reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink if better drinking water is part of why you're calling. If it isn't, the catalytic-carbon system remains the whole-house recommendation, and RO stays off the quote.

Whole-home catalytic carbon
Whole-home catalytic carbonCleans every tap in the house
Reverse osmosis
Reverse osmosisDrinking water at the kitchen sink
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What this does for your home
  • Reduces the chlorine taste and smell in showers, coffee, tea, and cooking water
  • Filtered drinking water from its own kitchen faucet
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: St. Tammany Parish - St. Gertrude annual water quality report. PWS ID LA1103154, verifiable in the EPA Safe Drinking Water database →Figures are as published by the system; see the original report for sampling methods and ranges.The published report reviewed for this page does not include a usable PFAS result, so this page does not claim that PFAS are present at this address.Get my written plan and price →

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What this means at your house

Your water arrives with chlorine in it, at 1.7 parts per million. That is the disinfectant the St. Gertrude system uses, and it is the taste people notice in coffee, in tea, and in the first glass of the day. For perspective, some people can taste or smell chlorine at levels as low as 0.3 parts per million. Catalytic carbon takes it out at every tap in the house.

The water here is groundwater, pumped from the aquifer under your feet.

How the report becomes the recommendation

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

The report showsAt your houseThe answerWhy that one
Chlorine at 1.7 ppmThe taste and smell in coffee, tea, and the first glass of the dayWhole-home catalytic carbonChlorine sticks to carbon on contact, and a full-size tank gives the water that contact time.

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It cannot say what is causing dry skin at your house. Hot water, soap, weather, and the disinfectant can all contribute, and the report only establishes that the disinfectant is present.

It publishes no hardness figure, so any softener conversation starts with a test at your tap, never with this page.

It cannot speak for the pipes inside your own walls. Lead sampling covers a handful of homes across the whole system, and your service line, solder, and fixtures are yours alone.

It says nothing about sediment at your particular faucet; annual reports do not measure what collects in one house.

Before anything goes on a quote, we ask what you are actually noticing and test whatever the published data cannot answer.

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