Transient Non-Community · PWSID IA4929901

Bulgers Hollow Recreation Area

Serves 77 peopleGroundwaterOwner: FederalThomson, Illinois
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 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 2015: 10 violations. 6 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-05-20.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test1 open
4Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 81% 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

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
60% missed or late test · 640% notice or report · 4

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

Open now (3)

  1. 2024-05-20Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2023-10-14E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-05-20Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2023-10-14E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  3. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2022-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2016-04-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2016-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  8. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  9. 2015-04-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served77
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CityThomson
EPA ZIP on file61285

Areas served

  • Clinton, Clinton County

Reading this record

Bulgers Hollow Recreation Area is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 77 people in Thomson, 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.