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Community Water System · PWS IL1750050

Bradford

Operator location Bradford, Illinois - 85% of 213 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 676 served per SDWIS.

676
People served (this PWS)
213
EPA violations (this PWS)
181
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Bradford standing, high SDWIS violation third

85% of 213 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 85% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #24,779 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Bradford sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (213), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (676; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 85% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#24,779 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#1,114 of 1,310
Population · IL
213
Total EPA violations on record
85%
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
341
County
Stark
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
181
Monitoring Violations
9
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MCL 139 2004
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MCL 40 2002
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 1994
Combined Uranium MR 4 2004
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 1998
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 1 1977

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Bradford has 213 recorded EPA violations, 86% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 14% carry more. 85% of this system's own violations are health-based (181 of 213), and it ranks #24,779 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)

213 Higher than most more violations than 86% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Bradford

181 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL1750050.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water

Nationwide peers

213 violations · 676 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints

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

4 peers

What to do with Bradford

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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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