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Community Water System · PWS IL1610550

Port Byron

Operator location Port Byron, Illinois - 14% of 44 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,678 served per SDWIS.

1,678
People served (this PWS)
44
EPA violations (this PWS)
6
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Port Byron standing, mid SDWIS violation third

14% of 44 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #15,012 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Port Byron lands in the middle third by violation volume (44), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,678 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#15,012 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#653 of 1,310
Population · IL
44
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
498
County
Rock Island
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
4
Monitoring Violations
20
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Lead and Copper Rule MR 10 2012
Coliform (TCR) MR 7 1995
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 6 2025
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 1991
Lead and Copper Rule TT 2 1997
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 2 2008
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 2 2025
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 1 1977

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Port Byron has 44 recorded EPA violations, 53% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 46% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 44), and it ranks #15,012 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)

44 Around the middle fewer violations than 46% 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 Port Byron

6 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL1610550.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water

Nationwide peers

44 violations · 1,678 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Port Byron

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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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater