Community Water System · PWS IL1830600
Prairie Path Water Company-Oakwood
Operator location McHenry, Illinois - 64% of 67 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,600 served per SDWIS.
- 1,600
- People served (this PWS)
- 67
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 43
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Prairie Path Water Company-Oakwood standing, mid SDWIS violation third
64% of 67 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 64% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #15,340 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Prairie Path Water Company-Oakwood lands in the middle third by violation volume (67), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,600 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 64% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,340 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #670 of 1,310
- Population · IL
- 67
- Total EPA violations on record
- 64%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 765
- County
- Vermilion
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 26
- Monitoring Violations
- 16
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 17
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 24 | 2013 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | TT | 11 | 2011 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 7 | 1995 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 6 | 2020 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 2 | 1989 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Prairie Path Water Company-Oakwood has 67 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 64% of this system's own violations are health-based (43 of 67), and it ranks #15,340 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)
67 Around the middle fewer violations than 36% 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 Prairie Path Water Company-Oakwood
43 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL1830600.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water
Nationwide peers
67 violations · 1,600 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Prairie Path Water Company-Oakwood
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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