AUBURN: EPA violation history, explained
AUBURN has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 4,574, over 1,917 connections.
AUBURN's record against the rest of the country
14 total violations and 5 health-based ones put AUBURN at the 72th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 3,668 of 12,903.
How AUBURN compares within IL
Among the 560 IL systems in this dataset, the average is 5.0 health-based violations - AUBURN's 5 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for AUBURN is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2010-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
AUBURN's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR); Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Atrazine
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
AUBURN's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 5 health-based violations on file for AUBURN - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.