Community Water System · PWS IL0670450
Laharpe
Operator location La Harpe, Illinois - 62% of 161 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,200 served per SDWIS.
- 1,200
- People served (this PWS)
- 161
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 100
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Laharpe standing, high SDWIS violation third
62% of 161 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 62% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #17,828 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Laharpe sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (161), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,200 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 62% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #17,828 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #790 of 1,310
- Population · IL
- 161
- Total EPA violations on record
- 62%
- 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
- 634
- County
- Hancock
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 35
- Monitoring Violations
- 38
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 65
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 34 | 1994 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | TT | 18 | 2009 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 18 | 2016 |
| Atrazine | MCL | 12 | 1997 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 9 | 2016 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 9 | 2017 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 8 | 1995 |
| Chlorine | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 8 | 2020 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 5 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 5 | 2009 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 3 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2016 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 1 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Laharpe has 161 recorded EPA violations, 82% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 18% carry more. 62% of this system's own violations are health-based (100 of 161), and it ranks #17,828 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)
161 Higher than most more violations than 82% 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 Laharpe
100 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL0670450.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water
Nationwide peers
161 violations · 1,200 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 Laharpe
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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