Is EFFINGHAM's water safe to drink?
EFFINGHAM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 12,252, over 5,300 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
7 total violations and 2 health-based ones put EFFINGHAM at the 48th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,702 of 12,903.
How EFFINGHAM compares within IL
EFFINGHAM's 2 health-based violations sit within 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 EFFINGHAM is from 2008-03-12 (health-based: 1986-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
EFFINGHAM'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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what EFFINGHAM 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 EFFINGHAM's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,702th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.