Is CLINTON's water safe to drink?
CLINTON has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 7,200 people through 3,200 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
17 total violations and 9 health-based ones put CLINTON at the 83th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,216 of 12,903.
How CLINTON compares within IL
CLINTON's 9 health-based violations sit above the IL average of 5.0, across 560 systems statewide. 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 CLINTON is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2011-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CLINTON'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)
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Arsenic
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
CLINTON'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. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 17 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.