What's in GEORGETOWN's water?
GEORGETOWN has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,200 people get their water from it, across 1,492 connections.
How this compares nationally
GEORGETOWN has 70 violations on record in total, 29 of thems health-based - ranking it 588th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 95th percentile nationally.
How GEORGETOWN compares within IL
GEORGETOWN's 29 health-based violations sit above 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 GEORGETOWN is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2002-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
GEORGETOWN'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:
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate; Nitrate-Nitrite
The most severe category on record is nitrate / nitrite, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what GEORGETOWN 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 GEORGETOWN's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 588th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.