Community Water System · PWS IL0855150
Prairie Path Water Company-Apple Canyon
Operator location Galena, Illinois - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 931 people served; 17 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 931
- People served (this PWS)
- 17
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Prairie Path Water Company-Apple Canyon standing, low SDWIS violation third
931 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 18% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #20,618 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Prairie Path Water Company-Apple Canyon is in the lower third by violation count (17; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is smaller (931; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 18% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #20,618 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #921 of 1,310
- Population · IL
- 17
- Total EPA violations on record
- 18%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 931
- County
- Jo Daviess
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 9
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 1993 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 3 | 1995 |
| Chlorine | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Prairie Path Water Company-Apple Canyon has 17 recorded EPA violations, 28% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 71% carry more. 18% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 17), and it ranks #20,618 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)
17 Lower than most fewer violations than 71% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Prairie Path Water Company-Apple Canyon
EPA SDWIS lists 931 people served and 931 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water
Nationwide peers
17 violations · 931 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Prairie Path Water Company-Apple Canyon
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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