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Community Water System · PWS IL0250200

Louisville

Operator location Louisville, Illinois - 8% of 52 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); surface water source; 1,201 served per SDWIS.

1,201
People served (this PWS)
52
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Louisville standing, mid SDWIS violation third

8% of 52 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #17,771 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Louisville lands in the middle third by violation volume (52), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,201 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#17,771 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#785 of 1,310
Population · IL
52
Total EPA violations on record
8%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
600
County
Clay
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
4
Monitoring Violations
29
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 23 2005
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 7 2022
Public Notice Other 4 2007
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 2016
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 4 2024
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 2000
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 1 1977

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Louisville has 52 recorded EPA violations, 57% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 42% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 52), and it ranks #17,771 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

52 Around the middle fewer violations than 42% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Louisville

4 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL0250200.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water

Nationwide peers

52 violations · 1,201 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Louisville

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Illinois compares on the same EPA violation measures. Illinois systems
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater