Villages of Bocage water, explained
Madisonville, St. Tammany Parish · PWS ID LA1103195
Villages of Bocage water carries chloramine at 1.3 parts per million, and it tests soft at 5.8 milligrams per liter, about 0.3 grains.
Beneath the surface
Your water reportVillages of Bocage
Villages of Bocage - Madisonville · PWS ID LA1103195 · 2025 water quality report
The pool taste and smell · chloramine, 1.3 ppmCatalytic carbon takes it out
No crunchy scale or stiff laundry · genuinely soft water, 0.3 gpgNo softener needed, ever
That pool taste in your coffee and ice is chloramine, the disinfectant this system uses. The water tests soft, so a softener is not part of what we would put in.
What we'd do at your house
The Complete Home package: whole-home catalytic carbon for the chloramine at every tap, plus reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink for drinking water, ice, and spot-free glasses at that tap. Villages of Bocage tests soft, so no softener goes in.
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What this means at your house
Your water arrives with chloramine in it, at 1.3 parts per million. That is the disinfectant Villages of Bocage - Madisonville uses, and it is what people taste in coffee, in ice, and in the first glass of the day. Chloramine does not gas off in a pitcher the way chlorine does, so catalytic carbon is the piece that takes it out, at every tap in the house.
The hardness here is 5.8 milligrams per liter, about 0.3 grains. That is soft water by any measure, so a softener would have almost nothing to work on and we leave it out of the plan.
This system does not pump its own water. It buys it wholesale from Tangipahoa Parish Water District.
Boundary confidence: likely. Systems in this area interlock, so we confirm yours by address before we quote anything.
Getting your numbers checked
Tell us your address and we pull the report for the system that actually serves it, then put the recommendation and the price in writing before any work starts. A licensed plumber does the install.