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Harvard Hills Water Corporation

Operator location Washington, Illinois - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 250 people served; 45 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

250
People served (this PWS)
45
EPA violations (this PWS)
9
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Harvard Hills Water Corporation standing, mid SDWIS violation third

250 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 20% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Harvard Hills Water Corporation lands in the middle third by violation volume (45), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (250; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 20% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

45
Total EPA violations on record
20%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
250
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
Private
Connections
86
County
Tazewell
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
4
Monitoring Violations
20
Treatment Tech Violations
5

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 9 1998
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 9 2025
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 7 1982
Lead and Copper Rule TT 5 2023
Lead and Copper Rule MR 4 2024
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 2007
Public Notice Other 3 2025

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Harvard Hills Water Corporation has 45 recorded EPA violations, 54% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 46% carry more. 20% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 45), 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)

45 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

Population served record for Harvard Hills Water Corporation

EPA SDWIS lists 250 people served and 86 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water

Nationwide peers

45 violations · 250 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Harvard Hills Water Corporation

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