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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS IL3117408

Washington Mills

Operator location Hennepin, Illinois - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 65 people served; 205 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

65
People served (this PWS)
205
EPA violations (this PWS)
8
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Washington Mills standing, high SDWIS violation third

65 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Washington Mills sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (205), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (65; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

205
Total EPA violations on record
4%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
65
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
State
Connections
1
County
Putnam
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
4
Monitoring Violations
191
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Lead and Copper Rule MR 10 2015
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 8 2017
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 8 2017
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 8 2017
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 8 2017
Vinyl chloride MR 8 2017
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 8 2017
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 8 2017
Carbon tetrachloride MR 8 2017
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 8 2017
Trichloroethylene MR 8 2017
Tetrachloroethylene MR 8 2017
CHLOROBENZENE MR 8 2017
Toluene MR 8 2017
Styrene MR 8 2017
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 8 2017
Xylenes, Total MR 8 2017
Benzene MR 8 2017
Ethylbenzene MR 8 2017
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 8 2017
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 8 2017
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 8 2017
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 7 2024
Nitrate MR 5 2017
Nitrate MCL 4 2010
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 4 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 4 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 1 1987

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Washington Mills has 205 recorded EPA violations, 86% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 14% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 205), 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)

205 Higher than most more violations than 86% 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 Washington Mills

EPA SDWIS lists 65 people served and 1 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

205 violations · 65 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

What to do with Washington Mills

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