Is EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY's water safe to drink?
EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 5,500 people through 65 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
12 total violations and 1 health-based ones put EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY at the 37th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,098 of 12,903.
How EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY compares within IL
EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY's 1 health-based violations sit within the IL average of 5.0, across 560 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY is from 2025-01-08 (health-based: 2012-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY'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
EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY'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. Between the utility's meter and EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,098th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.