Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS IL3059162
Clifton Central High School
Operator location Ashkum, Illinois - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 875 people served; 49 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 875
- People served (this PWS)
- 49
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Clifton Central High School standing, mid SDWIS violation third
875 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #21,467 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Clifton Central High School lands in the middle third by violation volume (49), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (875; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #21,467 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #956 of 1,310
- Population · IL
- 49
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- 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
- Non-Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Public/Private
- Connections
- 2
- County
- Iroquois
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 37
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 19 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 15 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 4 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 4 | 2024 |
| Nitrite | MR | 2 | 2017 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 2017 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Clifton Central High School has 49 recorded EPA violations, 56% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 49), and it ranks #21,467 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)
49 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% 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 Clifton Central High School
EPA SDWIS lists 875 people served and 2 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
49 violations · 875 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Clifton Central High School
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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