PECATONICA: EPA violation history, explained
PECATONICA has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 2,195, over 935 connections.
PECATONICA's record against the rest of the country
27 total violations and 1 health-based ones put PECATONICA at the 40th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,706 of 12,903.
How PECATONICA compares within IL
IL's 560 covered systems average 5.0 health-based violations each; PECATONICA carries 1, not 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 PECATONICA is from 1997-01-09 (health-based: 1996-04-02). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
PECATONICA'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 PECATONICA 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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for PECATONICA - 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.