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Community Water System · PWS IL0730300

Cambridge

Operator location Cambridge, Illinois - 84% of 108 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,086 served per SDWIS.

2,086
People served (this PWS)
108
EPA violations (this PWS)
91
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Cambridge standing, high SDWIS violation third

84% of 108 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 84% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #13,251 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Cambridge sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (108), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,086 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 84% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#13,251 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#577 of 1,310
Population · IL
108
Total EPA violations on record
84%
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
911
County
Henry
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
91
Monitoring Violations
4
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MCL 71 2016
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MCL 20 1995
Public Notice Other 2 2016
Combined Uranium MR 2 2012
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 1 1977
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 2001

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Cambridge has 108 recorded EPA violations, 75% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 25% carry more. 84% of this system's own violations are health-based (91 of 108), and it ranks #13,251 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)

108 Around the middle fewer violations than 25% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Cambridge

91 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL0730300.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water

Nationwide peers

108 violations · 2,086 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 Cambridge

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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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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