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Community Water System · PWS IL1090010

New Salem Pwd

Operator location Adair, Illinois - 88% of 97 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 451 served per SDWIS.

451
People served (this PWS)
97
EPA violations (this PWS)
85
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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New Salem Pwd standing, high SDWIS violation third

88% of 97 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 88% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

New Salem Pwd sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (97), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (451; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 88% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

97
Total EPA violations on record
88%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
451
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

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
206
County
McDonough
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
85
Monitoring Violations
1
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 81 2017
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 2013
Coliform (TCR) MR 1 2000

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

New Salem Pwd has 97 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 88% of this system's own violations are health-based (85 of 97), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

97 Around the middle fewer violations than 27% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on New Salem Pwd

85 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL1090010.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water

Nationwide peers

97 violations · 451 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

What to do with New Salem Pwd

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