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Community Water System · PWS IL1130300

Chenoa

Operator location Chenoa, Illinois - 63% of 127 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,785 served per SDWIS.

1,785
People served (this PWS)
127
EPA violations (this PWS)
80
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Chenoa standing, high SDWIS violation third

63% of 127 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 63% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #14,553 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Chenoa sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (127), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,785 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 63% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#14,553 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#635 of 1,310
Population · IL
127
Total EPA violations on record
63%
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
850
County
McLean
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
72
Monitoring Violations
30
Treatment Tech Violations
8

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 35 2023
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MCL 24 1991
Fluoride MCL 13 1985
Lead and Copper Rule MR 11 2025
Lead and Copper Rule TT 8 2023
Chlorine MR 6 2013
TTHM MR 5 2025
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 5 2025
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 2 2020
Public Notice Other 2 2009
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 1 1977

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Chenoa has 127 recorded EPA violations, 78% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 22% carry more. 63% of this system's own violations are health-based (80 of 127), and it ranks #14,553 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)

127 Higher than most more violations than 78% 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 Chenoa

80 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL1130300.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water

Nationwide peers

127 violations · 1,785 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Chenoa

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Illinois compares on the same EPA violation measures. Illinois systems
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater