Is CAMBRIDGE's water safe to drink?
CAMBRIDGE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 2,086, over 911 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
16 total violations and 11 health-based ones put CAMBRIDGE at the 86th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,831 of 12,903.
Against the IL average
Among the 560 IL systems in this dataset, the average is 5.0 health-based violations - CAMBRIDGE's 11 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
CAMBRIDGE's most recent violation on record is dated 2017-07-08, with the most recent health-based one dated 2016-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
The concern categories on record
CAMBRIDGE'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:
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228); Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
The most severe category on record is radionuclides, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What CAMBRIDGE's record does not cover
Everything on this page is CAMBRIDGE's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 11 health-based violations on file for CAMBRIDGE - 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.