Community Water System · PWS IL1570650
Steeleville
Operator location Steeleville, Illinois - 45% of 372 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,930 served per SDWIS.
- 1,930
- People served (this PWS)
- 372
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 169
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Steeleville standing, high SDWIS violation third
45% of 372 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 45% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #13,926 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Steeleville sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (372), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,930 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 45% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,926 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #606 of 1,310
- Population · IL
- 372
- Total EPA violations on record
- 45%
- 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
- 900
- County
- Randolph
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 169
- Monitoring Violations
- 193
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 161 | 2025 |
| Nitrate | MR | 30 | 2024 |
| Nitrite | MR | 20 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 8 | 2014 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 8 | 2025 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 6 | 2025 |
| Endrin | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Dalapon | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Diquat | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Endothall | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Simazine | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Picloram | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Aldicarb sulfoxide | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Atrazine | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| LASSO | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2025 |
| Aldicarb sulfone | MR | 4 | 2020 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Steeleville has 372 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 45% of this system's own violations are health-based (169 of 372), and it ranks #13,926 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)
372 Higher than most more violations than 93% 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 Steeleville
169 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL1570650.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water
Nationwide peers
372 violations · 1,930 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 Steeleville
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