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Community Water System · PWS IL1175100

Lake Williamson Christian Center

Operator location Carlinville, Illinois - 32% of 117 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,250 served per SDWIS.

1,250
People served (this PWS)
117
EPA violations (this PWS)
37
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Lake Williamson Christian Center standing, high SDWIS violation third

32% of 117 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 32% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #17,463 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Lake Williamson Christian Center sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (117), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,250 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 32% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#17,463 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#774 of 1,310
Population · IL
117
Total EPA violations on record
32%
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
Private
Connections
85
County
Macoupin
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
13
Monitoring Violations
48
Treatment Tech Violations
20

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 20 2015
Coliform (TCR) MR 15 2013
Chlorine MR 12 2023
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 10 2023
Atrazine MCL 9 1996
TTHM MR 4 2021
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 4 2021
Chlorine dioxide MRDL 4 2011
Chlorite MCL 4 2014
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2011
Lead and Copper Rule MR 3 2025

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Lake Williamson Christian Center has 117 recorded EPA violations, 76% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 24% carry more. 32% of this system's own violations are health-based (37 of 117), and it ranks #17,463 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)

117 Higher than most more violations than 76% 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 Lake Williamson Christian Center

37 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL1175100.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water

Nationwide peers

117 violations · 1,250 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Lake Williamson Christian Center

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

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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