Community Water System · PWS IL0510250
St Elmo
Operator location St Elmo, Illinois - 28% of 105 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,272 served per SDWIS.
- 1,272
- People served (this PWS)
- 105
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 29
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
St Elmo standing, high SDWIS violation third
28% of 105 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 28% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #17,347 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
St Elmo sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (105), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,272 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 28% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #17,347 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #766 of 1,310
- Population · IL
- 105
- Total EPA violations on record
- 28%
- 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
- Fayette
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 8
- Monitoring Violations
- 53
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 21
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 35 | 1994 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 21 | 1996 |
| Atrazine | MCL | 8 | 1997 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 7 | 1997 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2014 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2014 |
| Chlorine | MR | 2 | 2011 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
St Elmo has 105 recorded EPA violations, 74% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 26% carry more. 28% of this system's own violations are health-based (29 of 105), and it ranks #17,347 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)
105 Around the middle fewer violations than 26% 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 St Elmo
29 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL0510250.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water
Nationwide peers
105 violations · 1,272 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
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 St Elmo
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