Community Water System · PWS IL1190450
Hamel
Operator location Hamel, Illinois - 0% of 52 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); surface water source; 1,087 served per SDWIS.
- 1,087
- People served (this PWS)
- 52
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Hamel standing, mid SDWIS violation third
0% of 52 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #18,720 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Hamel lands in the middle third by violation volume (52), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,087 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #18,720 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #834 of 1,310
- Population · IL
- 52
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- 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
- 490
- County
- Madison
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 36
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MR | 12 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 8 | 2019 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 5 | 2000 |
| Chloramine | MR | 4 | 2022 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2022 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2022 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Hamel has 52 recorded EPA violations, 57% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 42% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 52), and it ranks #18,720 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)
52 Around the middle fewer violations than 42% 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 Hamel
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL1190450.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water
Nationwide peers
52 violations · 1,087 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Hamel
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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