Community Water System · PWS IL0995840
Sheridan Correctional Center
Operator location Sheridan, Illinois - 0% of 124 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 1,670 served per SDWIS.
- 1,670
- People served (this PWS)
- 124
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Sheridan Correctional Center standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 124 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 #15,030 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Sheridan Correctional Center sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (124), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,670 (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.
- #15,030 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #654 of 1,310
- Population · IL
- 124
- 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
- State
- Connections
- 44
- County
- LaSalle
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 117
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| Toluene | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| Styrene | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| Benzene | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 1992 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2013 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2013 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2018 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Sheridan Correctional Center has 124 recorded EPA violations, 77% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 22% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 124), and it ranks #15,030 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)
124 Higher than most more violations than 77% 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 Sheridan Correctional Center
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL0995840.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water
Nationwide peers
124 violations · 1,670 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 Sheridan Correctional Center
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