What's in CRETE's water?
CRETE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 8,275, over 2,745 connections.
CRETE's record against the rest of the country
CRETE has 22 violations on record in total, 4 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,181th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 68th percentile nationally.
How CRETE compares within IL
Among the 560 IL systems in this dataset, the average is 5.0 health-based violations - CRETE's 4 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CRETE is from 2024-01-04 (health-based: 2011-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CRETE'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)
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what CRETE reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and CRETE's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,181th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.