Community Water System · PWSID IL1190120

Forge at the Lake

Serves 387 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateMetamore, Illinois
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On record since 2005: 94 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 54 missed or late tests · 39 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-01-01.

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
1Treatment lapse
54Missed or late test
39Notice or report

More violations on record than 98% 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

2005 · Notice or report: 220052006 · Treatment lapse: 12006 · Notice or report: 22008 · Missed or late test: 120102013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 120152020 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 142021 · Missed or late test: 142021 · Missed or late test: 142021 · Missed or late test: 142021 · Missed or late test: 142021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Notice or report: 132022 · Notice or report: 132022 · Notice or report: 132022 · Notice or report: 132022 · Notice or report: 132023 · Missed or late test: 172023 · Missed or late test: 172023 · Missed or late test: 172023 · Missed or late test: 172023 · Missed or late test: 172023 · Missed or late test: 172023 · Notice or report: 142023 · Notice or report: 142023 · Notice or report: 142023 · Notice or report: 142023 · Notice or report: 142024 · Notice or report: 62024 · Notice or report: 62025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
1% treatment lapse · 157% missed or late test · 5441% notice or report · 39

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

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 2 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.6 ppb
1 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-04-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2024-03-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2024-02-25Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2024-01-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2024-01-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2023-12-03Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2023-11-05Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2023-10-01ChloramineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2023-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  12. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2023-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2023-07-27Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2023-07-01ChloramineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2023-06-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2023-05-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2023-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2023-04-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2023-04-01ChloramineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2023-03-22Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
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  1. 2023-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2023-02-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2023-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2023-01-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2023-01-01ChloramineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2022-12-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2022-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2022-11-20Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2022-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2022-10-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2022-10-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2022-10-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2022-10-01ChloramineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  19. 2022-09-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2022-08-21Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2022-07-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2022-07-01ChloramineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2022-07-01ChloramineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  26. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  27. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  28. 2022-06-16Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  29. 2022-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  30. 2022-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  31. 2022-04-01ChloramineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  32. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  33. 2022-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  34. 2022-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  35. 2022-01-01ChloramineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  36. 2022-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  37. 2021-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  38. 2021-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  39. 2021-10-01ChloramineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  40. 2021-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  41. 2021-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  42. 2021-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  43. 2021-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  44. 2021-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  45. 2021-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  46. 2021-07-01ChloramineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  47. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  48. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  49. 2021-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  50. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  51. 2021-04-01ChloramineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  52. 2020-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  53. 2020-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  54. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  55. 2013-01-02Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  56. 2008-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  57. 2006-09-08Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  58. 2006-09-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  59. 2006-04-29Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  60. 2005-10-08Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  61. 2005-10-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served387
Service connections129
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMetamore
EPA ZIP on file61548

Areas served

  • Madison County

Reading this record

Forge at the Lake is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 387 people in Metamore, 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.