IL AMERICAN-PONTIAC: EPA violation history, explained
IL AMERICAN-PONTIAC has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 11,864 people through 4,460 service connections.
How this compares nationally
IL AMERICAN-PONTIAC has 20 violations on record in total, 9 of thems health-based - ranking it 2,195th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 83th percentile nationally.
How IL AMERICAN-PONTIAC compares within IL
IL's 560 covered systems average 5.0 health-based violations each; IL AMERICAN-PONTIAC carries 9, more than typical for the state. 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 IL AMERICAN-PONTIAC is from 2016-01-07 (health-based: 1992-03-02). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
IL AMERICAN-PONTIAC'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
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
IL AMERICAN-PONTIAC'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-PONTIAC's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,195th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.