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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS IL3161463

Prospect Heights Plaza

Operator location Prospect Heights, Illinois - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 478 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,240 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,240
People served (this PWS)
478
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Prospect Heights Plaza standing, high SDWIS violation third

478 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #17,533 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Prospect Heights Plaza sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (478), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,240 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#17,533 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#775 of 1,310
Population · IL
478
Total EPA violations on record
1%
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
Private
Connections
1
County
Cook
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
466
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 9 2025
HEXACHLOROBENZENE MR 9 2025
Benzo(a)pyrene MR 9 2025
Pentachlorophenol MR 9 2025
1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE MR 9 2025
ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE MR 9 2025
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 9 2025
Xylenes, Total MR 9 2025
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 9 2025
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 9 2025
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 9 2025
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 9 2025
Vinyl chloride MR 9 2025
Carbon tetrachloride MR 9 2025
CHLOROBENZENE MR 9 2025
Ethylbenzene MR 9 2025
Styrene MR 9 2025
BHC-GAMMA MR 9 2025
Methoxychlor MR 9 2025
Toxaphene MR 9 2025
Dalapon MR 9 2025
Endothall MR 9 2025
Glyphosate MR 9 2025
Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate MR 9 2025
OXAMYL MR 9 2025
Simazine MR 9 2025
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate MR 9 2025
Dinoseb MR 9 2025
Atrazine MR 9 2025
LASSO MR 9 2025

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Prospect Heights Plaza has 478 recorded EPA violations, 95% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 5% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 478), and it ranks #17,533 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)

478 Higher than most more violations than 95% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for Prospect Heights Plaza

478 violations on record for IL3161463; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water

Nationwide peers

478 violations · 1,240 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Prospect Heights Plaza

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
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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