Bartlett, IL Water Quality
Is Bartlett's water safe to drink?
Bartlett has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 41,500 people get their water from it, across 14,545 connections.
Bartlett's record against the rest of the country
60 total violations and 49 health-based ones put Bartlett at the 98th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 284 of 12,903.
Against the IL average
Bartlett's 49 health-based violations sit above the IL average of 5.1, across 572 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Bartlett's most recent violation on record is dated 2011-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2011-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
The concern categories on record
Bartlett's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228)
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Barium
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What Bartlett's record does not cover
Everything on this page is Bartlett's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 49 health-based violations on file for Bartlett - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.