Community Water System · PWS IL1575550
Menard Correctional Center
Operator location Menard, Illinois - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 125 EPA violations; surface water source; 2,950 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,950
- People served (this PWS)
- 125
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Menard Correctional Center standing, high SDWIS violation third
125 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 2% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #10,802 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Menard Correctional Center sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (125), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,950 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 2% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #10,802 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #485 of 1,310
- Population · IL
- 125
- Total EPA violations on record
- 2%
- 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
- State
- Connections
- 9
- County
- Randolph
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 104
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 27 | 2025 |
| Chloramine | MR | 21 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 11 | 2025 |
| TTHM | MR | 11 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 10 | 2000 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 3 | 1993 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1981 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 2 | 1993 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1981 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1981 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2025 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1981 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1981 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1981 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1981 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1981 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 1995 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 1 | 1995 |
| Simazine | MR | 1 | 1995 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
| Atrazine | MR | 1 | 1995 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Menard Correctional Center has 125 recorded EPA violations, 78% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 22% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 125), and it ranks #10,802 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)
125 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
SDWIS compliance record for Menard Correctional Center
125 violations on record for IL1575550; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water
Nationwide peers
125 violations · 2,950 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 Menard Correctional Center
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