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Community Water System · PWS IL1910010

Western Wayne Water District

Operator location Wayne City, Illinois - 73% of 94 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 3,516 served per SDWIS.

3,516
People served (this PWS)
94
EPA violations (this PWS)
69
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Western Wayne Water District standing, high SDWIS violation third

73% of 94 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 73% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #9,574 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Western Wayne Water District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (94), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is large (3,516; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 73% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#9,574 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#440 of 1,310
Population · IL
94
Total EPA violations on record
73%
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
1,406
County
Wayne
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
64
Monitoring Violations
13
Treatment Tech Violations
5

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 42 2009
Coliform (TCR) MCL 22 2011
Coliform (TCR) MR 10 2004
Public Notice Other 7 2009
CARBON, TOTAL TT 5 2014
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2011
Chlorine MR 2 2012
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 1996

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Western Wayne Water District has 94 recorded EPA violations, 72% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 28% carry more. 73% of this system's own violations are health-based (69 of 94), and it ranks #9,574 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)

94 Around the middle fewer violations than 28% 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 Western Wayne Water District

69 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL1910010.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water

Nationwide peers

94 violations · 3,516 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 similar served population

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

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What to do with Western Wayne Water District

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