What's in ELMWOOD PARK's water?
ELMWOOD PARK has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 25,000 people through 6,295 service connections.
ELMWOOD PARK's record against the rest of the country
9 total violations and 3 health-based ones put ELMWOOD PARK at the 59th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,315 of 12,903.
Against the IL average
ELMWOOD PARK's 3 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
ELMWOOD PARK's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2000-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
The concern categories on record
ELMWOOD PARK'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 ELMWOOD PARK's record does not cover
ELMWOOD PARK'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 ELMWOOD PARK's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,315th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.