BRAIDWOOD: EPA violation history, explained
BRAIDWOOD has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 6,194, over 2,254 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
BRAIDWOOD has 35 violations on record in total, 14 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,356th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 89th percentile nationally.
How BRAIDWOOD compares within IL
IL's 560 covered systems average 5.0 health-based violations each; BRAIDWOOD carries 14, more than typical for the state. 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 BRAIDWOOD is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 2012-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BRAIDWOOD'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)
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228); Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
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
This is what BRAIDWOOD reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and BRAIDWOOD's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,356th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.