Community Water System · PWSID IL1290010

Menard Rural Water Coop

Serves 753 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: PrivatePetersburg, 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: 13 violations. 3 over the limit · 6 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-12-01.

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

3Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test1 open
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 85% 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 · Missed or late test: 12005201020152017 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
23% over the limit · 346% missed or late test · 631% notice or report · 4

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)2021-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0850 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2021-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0970 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2021-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0990 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)
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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2022-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-12-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2022-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  5. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  6. 2021-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0850 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2021-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0970 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2021-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0990 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2019-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  13. 2004-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served753
Service connections301
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPetersburg
EPA ZIP on file62675

Areas served

  • Petersburg, Menard County

Reading this record

Menard Rural Water Coop is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 753 people in Petersburg, 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.