Cross Gates and Lacombe water, explained
Slidell, St. Tammany Parish · PWS ID LA1103053
Cross Gates water carries chloramine at 2.0 parts per million, and it tests soft at 5 milligrams per liter, about 0.3 grains.
Beneath the surface
Your water reportCross Gates
St. Tam Parish - Cross Gates SD (Lacombe, parish-run) · PWS ID LA1103053 · 2025 water quality report
The pool taste and smell · chloramine, 2.0 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. Cross Gates 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 2.0 parts per million. That is the disinfectant St. Tam Parish - Cross Gates SD (Lacombe, parish-run) 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 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.
The water here is groundwater, pumped from Cross Gates/Meadow Lake wells.
What this area covers
The system that serves Cross Gates also serves these streets and subdivisions, as named in the published record:
- Cross Gates
- Cross Creek
- The Bluffs
- Landings of Cross Gates
- Turtle Creek
- Willow Wood
- Autumn Lakes
- Meadowlake
- Northshore Beach
- Point Carr
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.