Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID IL3082024

Balmoral Elem

Serves 645 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateCrete, IllinoisServes a school or daycare
Nothing open that measures the water, but 11 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2009: 25 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 13 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-30.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
13Missed or late test1 open
11Notice or report10 open

More violations on record than 92% of active water systems in Illinois. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

20052009 · Missed or late test: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 1020202024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 112024 · Notice or report: 112024 · Notice or report: 112024 · Notice or report: 112024 · Notice or report: 112024 · Notice or report: 112025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% treatment lapse · 152% missed or late test · 1344% notice or report · 11

Across Illinois, 81% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

10 ppb
1.3 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (11)

  1. 2024-10-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2024-02-15Public Notice ×10PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2024-02-15Public Notice ×10PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2020-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2020-01-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2020-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2020-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2020-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2020-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2020-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2020-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2020-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2020-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  16. 2009-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served645
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCrete
EPA ZIP on file60417

Areas served

  • Will County

Reading this record

Balmoral Elem is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 645 people in Crete, Illinois. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.