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Community Water System · PWS IL0312490

Phoenix

Operator location Phoenix, Illinois - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 244 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,994 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,994
People served (this PWS)
244
EPA violations (this PWS)
20
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Phoenix standing, high SDWIS violation third

244 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #13,712 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Phoenix sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (244), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,994 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#13,712 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#592 of 1,310
Population · IL
244
Total EPA violations on record
8%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
637
County
Cook
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
12
Monitoring Violations
140
Treatment Tech Violations
8

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 34 2010
Lead and Copper Rule MR 32 2022
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 25 2019
TTHM MR 25 2025
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 25 2025
Chlorine MR 24 2014
Public Notice Other 16 2022
Coliform (TCR) MCL 12 2008
Lead and Copper Rule TT 8 2004
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 2 2025

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Phoenix has 244 recorded EPA violations, 88% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 12% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (20 of 244), and it ranks #13,712 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

244 Higher than most more violations than 88% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for Phoenix

244 violations on record for IL0312490; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water

Nationwide peers

244 violations · 1,994 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems with comparable violation load

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Phoenix

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Illinois compares on the same EPA violation measures. Illinois systems
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater