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Community Water System · PWS IL1350100

Ej Water-Coalton

Operator location Dieterich, Illinois - 51% of 51 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 317 served per SDWIS.

317
People served (this PWS)
51
EPA violations (this PWS)
26
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Ej Water-Coalton standing, mid SDWIS violation third

51% of 51 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 51% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Ej Water-Coalton lands in the middle third by violation volume (51), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (317; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 51% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

51
Total EPA violations on record
51%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
317
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
147
County
Montgomery
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
26
Monitoring Violations
18
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Trichloroethylene MCL 26 1996
Chlorine MR 8 2013
Coliform (TCR) MR 7 2010
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 3 2022

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Ej Water-Coalton has 51 recorded EPA violations, 57% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 43% carry more. 51% of this system's own violations are health-based (26 of 51), 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)

51 Around the middle fewer violations than 43% 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 Ej Water-Coalton

26 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL1350100.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water

Nationwide peers

51 violations · 317 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Ej Water-Coalton

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