Transient Non-Community · PWSID IL3017772

Camp Dean (17772) Dean Lodge

Serves 250 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateWest Chicago, Illinois
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2017: 8 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 6 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-01-24.

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
6Missed or late test
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 75% 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

2005201020152017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
13% treatment lapse · 175% missed or late test · 613% notice or report · 1

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-01-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2022-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  4. 2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2020-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served250
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityWest Chicago
EPA ZIP on file60185

Areas served

  • Kane County

Reading this record

Camp Dean (17772) Dean Lodge is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 250 people in West Chicago, 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.