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Community Water System · PWS IL1290010

Menard Rural Water Coop

Operator location Petersburg, Illinois - 38% of 56 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 753 served per SDWIS.

753
People served (this PWS)
56
EPA violations (this PWS)
21
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Menard Rural Water Coop standing, mid SDWIS violation third

38% of 56 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 38% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #23,271 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Menard Rural Water Coop lands in the middle third by violation volume (56), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (753; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 38% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#23,271 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#1,041 of 1,310
Population · IL
56
Total EPA violations on record
38%
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
301
County
Menard
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
21
Monitoring Violations
25
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 21 2021
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 8 2024
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 8 2023
Chlorine MR 8 2024
Lead and Copper Rule MR 7 2022
Coliform (TCR) MR 2 2003

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Menard Rural Water Coop has 56 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 38% of this system's own violations are health-based (21 of 56), and it ranks #23,271 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)

56 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Menard Rural Water Coop

21 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL1290010.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water

Nationwide peers

56 violations · 753 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Menard Rural Water Coop

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
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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