Community Water System · PWS IL1131000
Stanford
Operator location Stanford, Illinois - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 600 people served; 14 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 600
- People served (this PWS)
- 14
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Stanford standing, low SDWIS violation third
600 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #26,202 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Stanford is in the lower third by violation count (14; 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 (600; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #26,202 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,168 of 1,310
- Population · IL
- 14
- Total EPA violations on record
- 14%
- 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
- 280
- County
- McLean
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 12
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 4 | 2003 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 4 | 2003 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 1996 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 1 | 1994 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Stanford has 14 recorded EPA violations, 24% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 75% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 14), and it ranks #26,202 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)
14 Among the lowest violation counts fewer violations than 75% 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 Stanford
EPA SDWIS lists 600 people served and 280 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
14 violations · 600 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 Stanford
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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