Community Water System · PWS IL0975010
Tower Lakes
Operator location Volo, Illinois - 0% of 208 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 1,372 served per SDWIS.
- 1,372
- People served (this PWS)
- 208
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Tower Lakes standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 208 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #16,763 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Tower Lakes sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (208), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,372 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,763 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #736 of 1,310
- Population · IL
- 208
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- 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
- 392
- County
- Lake
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 186
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| Benzene | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| Toluene | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| Styrene | MR | 9 | 1997 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 1997 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 1997 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 6 | 1997 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 6 | 1997 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 6 | 1997 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2022 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 1 | 1994 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Tower Lakes has 208 recorded EPA violations, 86% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 14% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 208), and it ranks #16,763 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)
208 Higher than most more violations than 86% 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 Tower Lakes
1 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL0975010.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water
Nationwide peers
208 violations · 1,372 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 Tower Lakes
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