Community Water System · PWS IL1830800
Rossville
Operator location Rossville, Illinois - 75% of 120 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,331 served per SDWIS.
- 1,331
- People served (this PWS)
- 120
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 90
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Rossville standing, high SDWIS violation third
75% of 120 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 75% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #16,961 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Rossville sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (120), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,331 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 75% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,961 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #747 of 1,310
- Population · IL
- 120
- Total EPA violations on record
- 75%
- 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
- 600
- County
- Vermilion
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 90
- Monitoring Violations
- 23
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 90 | 2009 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 8 | 2004 |
| Chlorine | MR | 7 | 2025 |
| Arsenic | MR | 3 | 2008 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 2 | 2025 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2023 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2022 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Rossville has 120 recorded EPA violations, 77% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 23% carry more. 75% of this system's own violations are health-based (90 of 120), and it ranks #16,961 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)
120 Higher than most more violations than 77% 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 Rossville
90 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IL1830800.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water
Nationwide peers
120 violations · 1,331 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 Rossville
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