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Company: Aqua Illinois
Current Parent Company: Essential Utilities Inc.
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Penalty: $200,000
Year: 2023
Date: October 5, 2023
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Secondary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: The company agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve allegations it made changes to the public water system that removed the protective scale on plumbing and solder in homes, causing lead to contaminate the drinking water.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Illinois Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Illinois
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Pennsylvania
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: utilities and power generation
Specific Industry of Current Parent: utilities
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.