Is ELK GROVE VILLAGE's water safe to drink?
ELK GROVE VILLAGE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 31,802 people through 12,263 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
11 total violations and 2 health-based ones put ELK GROVE VILLAGE at the 50th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,472 of 12,903.
How ELK GROVE VILLAGE compares within IL
ELK GROVE VILLAGE's 2 health-based violations sit within the IL average of 5.0, across 560 systems statewide. 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 ELK GROVE VILLAGE is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 1999-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
ELK GROVE VILLAGE'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)
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228)
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
This is what ELK GROVE VILLAGE 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 ELK GROVE VILLAGE's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,472th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.