Community Water System · PWS IL1997037
Crab Orchard Refuge
Operator location Marion, Illinois - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 25 people served; 99 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 25
- People served (this PWS)
- 99
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Crab Orchard Refuge standing, high SDWIS violation third
25 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 2% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Crab Orchard Refuge sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (99), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (25; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 2% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 99
- Total EPA violations on record
- 2%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 25
- 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
- Federal
- Connections
- 3
- County
- Williamson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 75
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barium | MR | 8 | 1988 |
| Cadmium | MR | 8 | 1988 |
| Chromium | MR | 8 | 1988 |
| Fluoride | MR | 8 | 1988 |
| Mercury | MR | 8 | 1988 |
| Selenium | MR | 8 | 1988 |
| Arsenic | MR | 8 | 1988 |
| Nitrate | MR | 8 | 1988 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2022 |
| Chloramine | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 2 | 1995 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 1 | 1993 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Crab Orchard Refuge has 99 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 99), 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)
99 Around the middle fewer violations than 27% 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 Crab Orchard Refuge
EPA SDWIS lists 25 people served and 3 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
99 violations · 25 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.
What to do with Crab Orchard Refuge
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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