Community Water System · PWS IL1210400
Patoka
Operator location Patoka, Illinois - 47% of 217 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 603 served per SDWIS.
- 603
- People served (this PWS)
- 217
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 103
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Patoka standing, high SDWIS violation third
47% of 217 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 47% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #26,070 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Patoka sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (217), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (603; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 47% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #26,070 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,163 of 1,310
- Population · IL
- 217
- Total EPA violations on record
- 47%
- 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
- Marion
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 65
- Monitoring Violations
- 101
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 38
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 79 | 2004 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 26 | 1996 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 24 | 2006 |
| Simazine | MCL | 18 | 2006 |
| Atrazine | MCL | 16 | 1994 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 11 | 1999 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | TT | 8 | 2005 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 7 | 1994 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 4 | 2019 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 4 | 2004 |
| Chlorine | MR | 2 | 2019 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Patoka has 217 recorded EPA violations, 86% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 13% carry more. 47% of this system's own violations are health-based (103 of 217), and it ranks #26,070 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)
217 Higher than most more violations than 86% 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 Patoka
103 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL1210400.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water
Nationwide peers
217 violations · 603 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.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Patoka
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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