Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID IL3091785

Ipsen International

Serves 100 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateCherry Valley, Illinois
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2004: 6 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 2 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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
3Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test1 open
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 68% 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

2004 · Treatment lapse: 22004 · Treatment lapse: 220052007 · Missed or late test: 12010201520202024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% treatment lapse · 333% missed or late test · 217% notice or report · 1

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4.9 ppb
3.7 ppb
2.3 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2007-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  5. 2004-01-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  6. 2004-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance

System details

Population served100
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCherry Valley
EPA ZIP on file61016

Areas served

  • Boone County

Reading this record

Ipsen International is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 100 people in Cherry Valley, 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.