Community Water System · PWSID IL0490100

Beecher City

Serves 500 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentBeecher City, Illinois
Nothing open that measures the water, but 5 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1994: 31 violations. 4 over the limit · 15 missed or late tests · 12 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

4Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
15Missed or late test2 open
12Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 93% of active water systems in Illinois. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1994 · Missed or late test: 11995200020052006 · Notice or report: 22010201520202023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Notice or report: 62024 · Notice or report: 62024 · Notice or report: 62025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
13% over the limit · 448% missed or late test · 1539% notice or report · 12

Across Illinois, 81% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2023-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0870 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2023-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0850 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2023-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0620 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2023-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0830 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

13 ppb
6.6 ppb
5 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (5)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  2. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  3. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  4. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  5. 2023-12-19Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  2. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  3. 2025-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2024-12-17Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2024-11-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2024-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-08-28Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  12. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  13. 2023-12-19Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
  14. 2023-12-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2023-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2023-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0870 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2023-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2023-04-06Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2023-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0850 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0620 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  25. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0830 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
Show the other 3 entries
  1. 2006-11-04Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2006-11-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 1994-04-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served500
Service connections260
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBeecher City
EPA ZIP on file62414

Areas served

  • Beecher City, Effingham County

Reading this record

Beecher City is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 500 people in Beecher City, Illinois. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.