Community Water System · PWS IL0490450
Teutopolis
Operator location Teutopolis, Illinois - 21% of 28 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); surface water source; 1,599 served per SDWIS.
- 1,599
- People served (this PWS)
- 28
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 6
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Teutopolis standing, mid SDWIS violation third
21% of 28 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 21% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #15,408 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Teutopolis lands in the middle third by violation volume (28), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,599 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 21% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,408 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #674 of 1,310
- Population · IL
- 28
- Total EPA violations on record
- 21%
- 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
- 748
- County
- Effingham
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 6
- Monitoring Violations
- 16
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 2001 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 6 | 1999 |
| Chlorine | MR | 6 | 2010 |
| Atrazine | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2005 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Teutopolis has 28 recorded EPA violations, 40% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 59% carry more. 21% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 28), and it ranks #15,408 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)
28 Lower than most fewer violations than 59% 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 Teutopolis
6 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL0490450.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water
Nationwide peers
28 violations · 1,599 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Teutopolis
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