Is HARRISBURG's water safe to drink?
HARRISBURG has at least one health-based violation EPA's ECHO database still lists as unaddressed - the required fix has not been reported complete. It serves 8,524 people through 3,724 service connections.
HARRISBURG's record against the rest of the country
HARRISBURG has 12 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,089th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 37th percentile nationally.
How HARRISBURG compares within IL
HARRISBURG's 1 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 HARRISBURG is from 2026-10-08 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HARRISBURG'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 REVISIONS
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is HARRISBURG's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and HARRISBURG's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,089th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.