What's in BEARDSTOWN's water?
BEARDSTOWN has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,951 people get their water from it, across 2,125 connections.
BEARDSTOWN's record against the rest of the country
BEARDSTOWN has 12 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,096th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 37th percentile nationally.
How BEARDSTOWN compares within IL
IL's 560 covered systems average 5.0 health-based violations each; BEARDSTOWN carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for BEARDSTOWN is from 2024-01-01 (health-based: 2003-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BEARDSTOWN'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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
BEARDSTOWN's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for BEARDSTOWN - 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.