DALLAS RURAL WATER DISTRICT: EPA violation history, explained
DALLAS RURAL WATER DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 6,370, over 2,548 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
DALLAS RURAL WATER DISTRICT has 9 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,303th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 36th percentile nationally.
How DALLAS RURAL WATER DISTRICT compares within IL
DALLAS RURAL WATER DISTRICT's 1 health-based violations sit within the IL average of 5.0, across 560 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for DALLAS RURAL WATER DISTRICT is from 2024-01-01 (health-based: 2000-04-08). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
DALLAS RURAL WATER DISTRICT'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what DALLAS RURAL WATER DISTRICT 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 DALLAS RURAL WATER DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,303th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.