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Community Water System · PWS IL1415100

Lost Lake Utility District

Operator location Dixon, Illinois - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 704 people served; 254 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

704
People served (this PWS)
254
EPA violations (this PWS)
15
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Lost Lake Utility District standing, high SDWIS violation third

704 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #24,198 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Lost Lake Utility District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (254), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (704; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#24,198 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#1,085 of 1,310
Population · IL
254
Total EPA violations on record
6%
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
362
County
Ogle
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
15
Monitoring Violations
201
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 91 1999
Coliform (TCR) MCL 8 1998
Public Notice Other 8 2024
Nitrate MCL 7 1999
Diquat MR 7 2020
Endothall MR 7 2020
Lead and Copper Rule MR 5 2004
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2023
Nitrate-Nitrite MR 3 1999
BHC-GAMMA MR 3 1999
Methoxychlor MR 3 1999
Toxaphene MR 3 1999
Carbofuran MR 3 1999
Atrazine MR 3 1999
LASSO MR 3 1999
Heptachlor MR 3 1999
2,4,5-TP MR 3 1999
Chlordane MR 3 1999
Dalapon MR 3 1999
OXAMYL MR 3 1999
Picloram MR 3 1999
Dinoseb MR 3 1999
Aldicarb sulfone MR 3 1999
Benzo(a)pyrene MR 3 1999
Simazine MR 3 1999
Aldicarb sulfoxide MR 3 1999
2,4-D MR 3 1999
Hexachlorocyclopentadiene MR 3 1999
Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) MR 3 1999
HEXACHLOROBENZENE MR 3 1999

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Lost Lake Utility District has 254 recorded EPA violations, 88% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 12% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (15 of 254), and it ranks #24,198 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)

254 Higher than most more violations than 88% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Lost Lake Utility District

EPA SDWIS lists 704 people served and 362 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water

Nationwide peers

254 violations · 704 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.

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Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

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What to do with Lost Lake Utility District

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