Community Water System · PWS IL1795050
Venado Lakes-Argyll Water Association
Operator location Delavan, Illinois - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 215 people served; 29 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 215
- People served (this PWS)
- 29
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Venado Lakes-Argyll Water Association standing, mid SDWIS violation third
215 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Venado Lakes-Argyll Water Association lands in the middle third by violation volume (29), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (215; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 29
- Total EPA violations on record
- 14%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 215
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
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
- 86
- County
- Tazewell
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 21
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 10 | 2000 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 10 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 3 | 1996 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 1 | 1994 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Venado Lakes-Argyll Water Association has 29 recorded EPA violations, 41% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 58% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 29), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
29 Lower than most fewer violations than 58% 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 Venado Lakes-Argyll Water Association
EPA SDWIS lists 215 people served and 86 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
29 violations · 215 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Venado Lakes-Argyll Water Association
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