Community Water System · PWSID IL0210600

Taylorville

Serves 12,806 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentTaylorville, 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 2006: 5 violations. 1 missed or late test · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-02.

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
1Missed or late test1 open
4Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 62% 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 22006 · Notice or report: 22010201520202025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
20% missed or late test · 180% notice or report · 4

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 10 results on file · action level 15 ppb

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Open now (3)

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  3. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  3. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2006-05-07Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2006-05-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served12,806
Service connections5,733
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityTaylorville
EPA ZIP on file62568

Areas served

  • Taylorville, Christian County

Reading this record

Taylorville is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 12,806 people in Taylorville, 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.