Is IL AMERICAN-EAST ST LOUIS's water safe to drink?
IL AMERICAN-EAST ST LOUIS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 131,368, over 52,547 connections.
IL AMERICAN-EAST ST LOUIS's record against the rest of the country
IL AMERICAN-EAST ST LOUIS has 4 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,794th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 32th percentile nationally.
How IL AMERICAN-EAST ST LOUIS compares within IL
Among the 560 IL systems in this dataset, the average is 5.0 health-based violations - IL AMERICAN-EAST ST LOUIS's 1 is at or below that. 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 IL AMERICAN-EAST ST LOUIS is from 2016-01-07 (health-based: 1992-07-12). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
IL AMERICAN-EAST ST LOUIS'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
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
IL AMERICAN-EAST ST LOUIS'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 IL AMERICAN-EAST ST LOUIS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,794th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.