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Community Water System · PWS IL1115080

Johnsburg No.2

Operator location Johnsburg, Illinois - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 157 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,124 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,124
People served (this PWS)
157
EPA violations (this PWS)
19
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Johnsburg No.2 standing, high SDWIS violation third

157 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 12% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #18,418 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Johnsburg No.2 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (157), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,124 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 12% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#18,418 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#824 of 1,310
Population · IL
157
Total EPA violations on record
12%
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
349
County
McHenry
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
12
Monitoring Violations
97
Treatment Tech Violations
7

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 12 2009
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MCL 12 2007
Nitrate MR 8 2007
Lead and Copper Rule MR 8 2019
Public Notice Other 8 2018
TTHM MR 8 2023
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 8 2023
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 8 2024
Lead and Copper Rule TT 7 1996
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 6 2007
Chlorine MR 6 2009
Toluene MR 6 2008
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 4 1991
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 4 1991
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 4 1991
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 4 1991
Trichloroethylene MR 4 1991
Benzene MR 4 1991
Carbon tetrachloride MR 4 1991
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate MR 4 2007
Chlordane MR 2 2014
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 1 1977

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Johnsburg No.2 has 157 recorded EPA violations, 82% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 18% carry more. 12% of this system's own violations are health-based (19 of 157), and it ranks #18,418 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)

157 Higher than most more violations than 82% 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 Johnsburg No.2

157 violations on record for IL1115080; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water

Nationwide peers

157 violations · 1,124 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Johnsburg No.2

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