Community Water System · PWSID IL0950200

Galesburg

Serves 31,620 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentGalesburg, Illinois
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On record since 1992: 2 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2014-07-01.

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
0Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 36% 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

1992 · Treatment lapse: 119952000200520102014 · Notice or report: 1201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% treatment lapse · 150% notice or report · 1

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 15 results on file · action level 15 ppb

11 ppb
11 ppb
9.9 ppb
9.3 ppb
8.1 ppb
7.2 ppb
6.9 ppb
6.3 ppb
4.1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  2. 1992-12-07Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance

System details

Population served31,620
Service connections12,648
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityGalesburg
EPA ZIP on file61401

Areas served

  • Galesburg, Knox County

Reading this record

Galesburg is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 31,620 people in Galesburg, 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.