Community Water System · PWSID IL1910010

Western Wayne Water District

Serves 3,516 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentWayne City, Illinois
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On record since 1996: 6 violations. 1 missed or late test · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2011-07-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
5Notice or report

More violations on record than 68% 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

1996 · Missed or late test: 1200020052009 · Notice or report: 42009 · Notice or report: 42009 · Notice or report: 42009 · Notice or report: 420102011 · Notice or report: 1201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
17% missed or late test · 183% notice or report · 5

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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

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Every violation on record

  1. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  2. 2009-10-30Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  3. 2009-07-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2009-06-10Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2009-06-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 1996-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served3,516
Service connections1,406
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityWayne City
EPA ZIP on file62895

Areas served

  • Wayne City, Wayne County

Reading this record

Western Wayne Water District is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 3,516 people in Wayne City, 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.