Tapcensus

Carbondale

Community water system in Carbondale, Jackson County, Illinois, serving 22,107 people from surface water. 3 rules violated in the past three years. Owned by local government.

People served 22,107 surface water
Rules violated, past 3 years 3 one rule can carry several violations
Unresolved 0 rules currently in violation, EPA data updated Oct 7, 2026
Quarters with violations 3 of the last 12 quarters

Quarterly compliance history

–Q3
2023
–Q4
2023
–Q1
2024
VQ2
2024
VQ3
2024
–Q4
2024
–Q1
2025
–Q2
2025
–Q3
2025
VQ4
2025
–Q1
2026
–Q2
2026
UQ3
2026
–No violation identified VViolation identified SSerious violator (EPA enforcement priority) UUndetermined Oldest quarter on the left. Quarters 1 to 12 are the twelve most recent official quarters at EPA's last data refresh; the 13th is the quarter in progress at that refresh, which EPA reports as undetermined.

Rules violated in the past three years

Jul to Sep 2023 to Jul to Sep 2026

Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule

Treatment Technique Violation Health-based

1 violation, Dec 2025 to Feb 2026
EPA rule code 123 · 1 violation recorded, 1 health-based

Treatment Technique Violation, health-based: 1 violation, Dec 2025 to Feb 2026. The system did not carry out a required treatment process or corrective action.

What the rule requires: The LT2 ESWTR (2006) required all surface water and GWUDI systems to monitor source water for Cryptosporidium, then apply additional treatment based on measured concentrations. Higher-bin systems (more oocysts detected) must install advanced treatment — UV disinfection, ozone, or membrane filtration — beyond the original SWTR requirements.

Health effects: Cryptosporidium is a chlorine-resistant protozoan parasite that causes cryptosporidiosis — severe watery diarrhea, cramping, nausea, and fever. In immunocompromised individuals (HIV/AIDS, transplant recipients), it can be life-threatening and prolonged. Infants and the elderly are also at elevated risk. LT2 violations indicate failure to complete monitoring or apply the required additional treatment tier. Limit: Treatment technique — additional Cryptosporidium treatment based on bin classification

About this rule

Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule

Monitoring and ReportingTreatment Technique Violation Health-based

4 violations, Apr 2024 to Jan 2025 · Carbon, Total
EPA rule code 210 · 4 violations recorded, 2 health-based

Treatment Technique Violation, health-based: 2 violations, Apr 2024 to Jan 2025. The system did not carry out a required treatment process or corrective action.

Monitoring and Reporting: 2 violations, Jul 2024 to Sep 2024. The system did not complete required monitoring, or did not report the results on time. This does not show that a contaminant was found.

Contaminant on the record: Carbon, Total.

Public Notice Rule and Revised PN Rule

Other Violation

1 violation, Aug 2024 to Aug 2024 · Public Notification Rule
EPA rule code 410 · 1 violation recorded

Other Violation: 1 violation, Aug 2024 to Aug 2024. A requirement other than monitoring, reporting, or a contaminant limit, such as public notice or the annual water quality report.

Contaminant on the record: Public Notification Rule.

Lead and copper at the tap

The 90th percentile of the tap samples the system collected in its latest monitoring period, against EPA's action level. Levels vary between homes.

Lead 0.0095 mg/L

Action level 0.015 mg/L · Jan to Dec 2025

About this data

Rules violated and the list above come from EPA's SDWIS violation records, one row per violation and contaminant, grouped by the rule each row belongs to. A violation counts when its non-compliance period ended on or after Jul 1, 2023, the start of the thirteen quarters ECHO's three-year figures cover, or is still open; it is unresolved when it was still open at EPA's data refresh on Oct 7, 2026. EPA's rule code 500, "Not Regulated", is left out, as in ECHO's counts. Each rule's violation count is EPA's, and one rule can carry several: a missed monitoring round for a group of contaminants is one violation per contaminant and period. Category names are EPA's violation categories.

ECHO's own summary count of rules violated agrees with this grouping for 98.8% of active systems nationally, and its count of rules being violated for 98.7%; where they differ, the figures here follow the rows listed.

A measured value shown with a rule is the sample result EPA recorded with that violation (SDWIS viol_measure), against the limit EPA recorded on the same row (state_mcl), both in EPA's unit as written; violations without a recorded value, such as missed monitoring, show none. Other measured contaminant levels are not part of this record; each system publishes them in its annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Lead and copper are the newest 90th-percentile results in EPA's SDWA data download (LCR_SAMPLES, codes PB90 and CU90): for each monitoring period a system reports the 90th-percentile value of its tap samples, which EPA compares with its action level of 0.015 mg/L for lead and 1.3 mg/L for copper (40 CFR 141.80). A result is not a measurement of any one tap.

Service area from EPA's Public Water System Service Area Boundaries dataset: Random Forest method, Federal agency. The system's location is the centre of the service area EPA publishes for the system.

Source: the U.S. EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online system (ECHO), which publishes the federal Safe Drinking Water Information System. EPA's terms and values are shown as published. The Illinois records are from EPA's data refresh of Oct 7, 2026; EPA refreshes this data quarterly, and states report to EPA with a lag of three to six months, so the newest violations may not appear yet.