Community Water System · PWS IL0890150
Burlington
Operator location Burlington, Illinois - 52% of 61 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 535 served per SDWIS.
- 535
- People served (this PWS)
- 61
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 32
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Burlington standing, mid SDWIS violation third
52% of 61 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 52% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #27,821 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Burlington lands in the middle third by violation volume (61), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (535; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 52% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #27,821 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,237 of 1,310
- Population · IL
- 61
- Total EPA violations on record
- 52%
- 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
- 222
- County
- Kane
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 32
- Monitoring Violations
- 17
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barium | MCL | 25 | 1990 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 12 | 2004 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 9 | 2025 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 7 | 1981 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Burlington has 61 recorded EPA violations, 62% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 38% carry more. 52% of this system's own violations are health-based (32 of 61), and it ranks #27,821 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)
61 Around the middle fewer violations than 38% 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 Burlington
32 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL0890150.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water
Nationwide peers
61 violations · 535 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
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 Burlington
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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