Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS IL3021568
Tomahawk Campground #1 (21568)
Operator location Pocahontas, Illinois - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 90 people served; 37 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 90
- People served (this PWS)
- 37
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 6
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Tomahawk Campground #1 (21568) standing, mid SDWIS violation third
90 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 16% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Tomahawk Campground #1 (21568) lands in the middle third by violation volume (37), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (90; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 16% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 37
- Total EPA violations on record
- 16%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 90
- 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
- Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 4
- County
- Bond
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 1
- Monitoring Violations
- 24
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 5
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 12 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 9 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 6 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 5 | 2024 |
| Nitrite | MR | 2 | 2020 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 1 | 1990 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 1 | 1981 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Tomahawk Campground #1 (21568) has 37 recorded EPA violations, 48% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 51% carry more. 16% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 37), 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)
37 Lower than most fewer violations than 51% 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 Tomahawk Campground #1 (21568)
EPA SDWIS lists 90 people served and 4 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
37 violations · 90 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 Tomahawk Campground #1
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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